Transient dwarfism of soil fauna during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

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

Volumn 106, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 17655-17660

  Smith, Jon J ^a,b   Hasiotis, Stephen T ^b   Kraus, Mary J ^c   Woody, Daniel T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Evolution; Extinction; Ichnofossils; Paleosols

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; EOCENE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; JURASSIC; PALEOCENE; PERMIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL FAUNA; TEMPERATURE; TRIASSIC;

ANIMALS; ASTACOIDEA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; FOSSILS; GLOBAL WARMING; INSECTS; MOLLUSCA; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL;

ASTACOIDEA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 70449580346     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909674106     Document Type: Article

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