Phanerozoic biodiversity mass extinctions

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue , 2006, Pages 127-155

  Bambach, Richard K ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Macroevolution; Paleobiology; Selectivity of extinction; Timing of extinction

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GEOLOGY; MARINE BIOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MACROEVOLUTION; MASS EXTINCTIONS; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHANEROZOIC BIODIVERSITY; SELECTIVITY OF EXTINCTION; TIMING OF EXTINCTION;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHANEROZOIC;

EID: 33744961896     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.33.092203.122654     Document Type: Review

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