Potential paleoecologic biases from size-filtering of fossils: Strategies for sieving

Palaios

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 612-622

  Bush, Andrew M ^a   Kowalewski, Michał ^b   Hoffmeister, Alan P ^c   Bambach, Richard K ^d   Daley, Gwen M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WINTHROP UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MIOCENE; MOLLUSC; PALEOECOLOGY; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SIEVING;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 36348933345     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2006.p06-002r     Document Type: Article

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