Species-abundance models: An ecological approach to inferring paleoenvironment and resolving paleoecological change in the Waldron Shale (Silurian)

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 234-245

  Peters, Shanan E ^a,b   Bork, Kennard B ^a  

^a DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MODEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SILURIAN;

UNITED STATES;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 0033150917     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515436     Document Type: Article

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