Mammalian response to cenozoic climatic change

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2009, Pages 181-208

  Blois, Jessica L ^a   Hadly, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic turnover; Functional turnover; Geographic range; Immigration; Morphology; Population abundance

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC TURNOVER; FUNCTIONAL TURNOVER; GEOGRAPHIC RANGE; IMMIGRATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE;

FORESTRY; MAMMALS; MORPHOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; GENETIC VARIATION; IMMIGRATION; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

MAMMALIA;

EID: 67651008970     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100055     Document Type: Review

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