Cenozoic mammalian herbivores from the Americas: Reconstructing ancient diets and terrestrial communities

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 31, Issue , 2000, Pages 33-59

  MacFadden, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Browsers; Grazers; Isotopes; Morphology; Paleoclimate; Teeth

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CENOZOIC; DIET; HERBIVORY; PALEOECOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0034503061     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.31.1.33     Document Type: Article

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