Early Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in East Asia based on food-web and energy-flow models

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 285-307

  Matsukawa, Masaki ^a   Saiki, Ken'ichi ^b   Ito, Makoto ^c   Obata, Ikuwo ^d   Nichols, Douglas J ^e   Lockley, Martin G ^f   Kukihara, Reiji ^f   Shibata, Kenichiro ^c  

^a TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^e DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; East Asia; Energy flow; Food web; Population density; Terrestrial ecosystems

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FOOD WEB; PALEOECOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

AMPHIBIA; BIVALVIA; CONCHOSTRACA; DINOSAURIA; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; OSTRACODA; PISCES; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33644889650     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2005.11.010     Document Type: Article

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