Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 222-256

  Caron, Jean Bernard ^a   Jackson, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community structure; Middle Cambrian; Multivariate methods; Paleoecology; Temporal patterns

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CAMBRIAN; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PALEOECOLOGY; RECOLONIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAPHONOMY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHENGJIANG; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YUNNAN;

ARTHROPODA; PHYLLOPODA;

EID: 38949093880     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.05.023     Document Type: Article

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