Secular increase in nutrient levels through the phanerozoic: implications for productivity, biomass, diversity, and extinction of the marine biosphere

Paleontological Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 637-643

  Martin, R E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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