Major patterns in the history of carnivorous mammals

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue , 1999, Pages 463-493

  Van Valkenburgh, Blaire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Competition; Evolutionary trends; Mammalian adaptations; Predation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MAMMAL;

EID: 0033394908     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.27.1.463     Document Type: Article

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