Paleophysiology and end-Permian mass extinction

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 256, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 295-313

  Knoll, Andrew H ^a   Bambach, Richard K ^b   Payne, Jonathan L ^c   Pruss, Sara ^a   Fischer, Woodward W ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

mass extinction; paleontology; Permian; physiology; Triassic

Indexed keywords

MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; GLOBAL WARMING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ANOXIA; GLOBAL CHANGE; INVERTEBRATE; MASS EXTINCTION; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34047095330     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.018     Document Type: Article

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