Body size overlap, habitat partitioning and living space requirements of terrestrial vertebrate predators: Implications for the paleoecology of large theropod Dinosaurs

Historical Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 21-40

  Farlow, James O ^a   Pianka, Eric R ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Dinosaur park formation; Dinosaurs; Ecology; Hutchinsonian ratio; Paleocology; Theropods; Tyrannosaurids

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DINOSAUR; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PREDATOR;

ANIMALIA; DINOSAURIA; HUTCHINSONIA; TETRAPODA; THEROPODA; TYRANNOSAURIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141503417     PISSN: 08912963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0891296031000154687     Document Type: Article

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