Intensities of drilling predation of molluscan assemblages along a transect through the northern Gulf of Trieste (Adriatic Sea)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 285, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 152-173

  Sawyer, Jennifer A ^a   Zuschin, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Evolutionary paleoecology; Feeding strategies; Patchiness; Substrate relationship

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CENOZOIC; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL RECORD; GASTROPOD; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PATCHINESS;

ADRIATIC SEA; GULF OF TRIESTE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BIVALVIA; CERITHIIDAE; CORBULIDAE; GALEOMMATIDAE; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; NUCULIDAE; TAPES RHOMBOIDES; TROCHIDAE;

EID: 72749105573     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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