Faunal turnover rates and mammalian biodiversity of the late pliocene and pleistocene of Eastern Africa

Paleobiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 500-511

  McKee, Jeffrey K ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; TURNOVER;

(EAST); AFRICA;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035726706     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0500:FTRAMB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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