The biotic crisis and the future of evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 5389-5392

  Myers, Norman ^a,b   Knoll, Andrew H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Upper Meadow   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; GENE POOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0035826877     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.091092498     Document Type: Article

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