Critical issues of scale in paleoecology

Palaios

Volumn 24, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-4

  Bennington, J Bret ^a   Dimichele, William A ^b   Badgley, Catherine ^c   Bambach, Richard K ^b   Barrett, Paul M ^d   Behrensmeyer, Anna K ^b   Bobe, René ^e   Burnham, Robyn J ^c   Daeschler, Edward B ^f   van Dam, Jan ^g   Eronen, Jussi T ^h   Erwin, Douglas H ^b   Finnegan, Seth ⁱ   Holland, Steven M ^e   Hunt, Gene ^b   Jablonski, David ^j   Jackson, Stephen T ^k   Jacobs, Bonnie F ^l   Kidwell, Susan M ^j   Koch, Paul L ^m   Kowalewski, Michal J ⁿ   Labandeira, Conrad C ^a   Looy, Cindy V ^b   Lyons, S Kathleen ^b   Novack Gottshall, Philip M ^o   Potts, Richard ^b   Roopnarine, Peter D ^p   Strömberg, Caroline A E ^q   Sues, Hans Dieter ^b   Wagner, Peter J ^b   Wilf, Peter ^r   Wing, Scott L ^b   more..

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^l SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

^p CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^r PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA ACQUISITION; PALEOECOLOGY; RESEARCH PROGRAM;

EID: 60749103849     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2009.S01     Document Type: Article

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