Effects of Oligo-Miocene global climate changes on mammalian species richness in the northwestern quarter of the USA

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 811-841

  Barnosky, Anthony D ^a   Carrasco, Marc A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mammals; Miocene; Oligocene; Palaeontology; Species richness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038599062     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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