Higher origination and extinction rates in larger mammals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 6097-6102

  Lee, Hsiang Liow ^a   Fortelius, Mikael ^b,c   Bingham, Ella ^b   Lintulaakso, Kari ^b   Mannila, Heikki ^b,d   Flynn, Larry ^e   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; Environmental buffering; Metabolism; Neogene mammals; Turnover

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOTIC LIGAND MODEL; BURROWING SPECIES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HIBERNATION; MAMMAL; MARK RECAPTURE; METABOLIC RATE; NEOGENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOSSIL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; MAMMALS;

EID: 43149112064     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0709763105     Document Type: Article

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