A method for reconstructing climate from fossil beetle assemblages

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1544, 2004, Pages 1125-1128

  Huppert, Amit ^a   Solow, Andrew R ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Beetles; Calibration; Climate reconstruction; Logistic regression; Mutual Climatic Range

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; RECONSTRUCTION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CLIMATE; FOSSIL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 2942573203     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2706     Document Type: Article

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