Probability that a fossil absent from a sample is also absent from the paleolandscape

Quaternary Research

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 144-154

  Nowak, Robert S ^a   Nowak, Cheryl L ^b   Tausch, Robin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Great Basin vegetation; Missing fossils; Paleovegetation; Woodrat (Neotoma) middens

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; FOSSILIZATION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; VEGETATION HISTORY;

GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033893777     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2000.2143     Document Type: Article

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