Slow crawl across the salinity divide: Delayed colonization of freshwater ecosystems by invertebrates

GSA Today

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 4-10

  Miller, Molly Fritz ^a   Labandeira, Conrad C ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; EVOLUTION; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; PALEOECOLOGY; SALINITY;

EID: 0036991382     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/1052-5173(2002)012<0004:SCATSD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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