Abundance distributions imply elevated complexity of post-paleozoic marine ecosystems

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5803, 2006, Pages 1289-1292

  Wagner, Peter J ^a   Kosnik, Matthew A ^b   Lidgard, Scott ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; MARINE ENGINEERING;

EPIFAUNAL SUSPENSION FEEDERS; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE ORGANISMS; PALEOZOIC ASSEMBLAGES;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CENOZOIC; DEPOSIT FEEDER; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EPIFAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSILIZATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MESOZOIC; PALEOZOIC; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SESSILE SPECIES;

ARTICLE; CAMBRIAN; CENOZOIC; EVOLUTION; FAUNA; FOSSIL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOZOIC; PHANEROZOIC; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; INVERTEBRATES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARINE BIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 33751565775     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133795     Document Type: Article

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