Hypoxia, global warming, and terrestrial late permian extinctions

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5720, 2005, Pages 398-401

  Huey, Raymond B ^a   Ward, Peter D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEAN HABITATS; OXYGEN; SEA LEVEL; WEATHERING;

CATASTROPHIC EXTINCTIONS; HABITAT DIVERSITY; HYPOXIA; LATE PERMIAN EXTINCTIONS;

ECOLOGY;

MASS EXTINCTION; PERMIAN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; DISASTER; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PERMIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VERTEBRATE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROWDING; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FOSSILS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OXYGEN; POPULATION DENSITY; RESPIRATION; TEMPERATURE; TIME; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 17244381182     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1108019     Document Type: Article

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