Chapter 6using environmental niche modeling to study the late devonian biodiversity crisis

Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy

Volumn 20, Issue C, 2005, Pages 93-179

  Stigall Rode, Alycia L ^a   Lieberman, Bruce S ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

biogeography; extinction; invasion; prediction; survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750947508     PISSN: 09205446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-5446(05)80006-8     Document Type: Article

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