Using large mammal communities to examine ecological and taxonomic structure and predict vegetation in extant and extinct assemblages

Paleobiology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 384-408

  Reed, Kaye E ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

EVOLUTION; PALEOECOLOGY; TAXONOMY;

EID: 0032414619     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373-24.3.384     Document Type: Article

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