Requiem for lipotes: An evolutionary perspective on marine mammal extinction

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 714-724

  Pyenson, Nicholas D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; MARINE MAMMAL;

LIPOTES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 67849083395     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: 17487692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2008.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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