A scale of greatness and causal classification of mass extinctions: Implications for mechanisms

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

Volumn 105, Issue 37, 2008, Pages 13736-13740

  Celal Sengor A M ^a   Atayman, Saniye ^a   Özeren, Sinan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Greatness scale; Intensity; Magnitude; Mass dying; Shelf destruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTION; GLACIATION; HABITAT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESOZOIC; ORDOVICIAN; OSCILLATION; PALEOZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAIN FOREST; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 52949113830     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805482105     Document Type: Article

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