Paleontological patterns, macroecological dynamics and the evolutionary process

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 28-48

  Lieberman, Bruce S ^a   Miller III, William ^b   Eldredge, Niles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Darwin; Ecology; Environment; Punctuated equilibria; Rates of speciation; Species; Turnovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549112907     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-007-9005-4     Document Type: Article

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