Setting the absolute tempo of biodiversity dynamics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 637-646

  Allen, Andrew P ^a   Savage, Van M ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic stochasticity; Environmental stochasticity; Extinction; Macroevolution; Neutral biodiversity theory; Population dynamics; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROTOZOA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 34249776723     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01057.x     Document Type: Article

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