Information landscapes and sensory ecology of the Cambrian Radiation

Paleobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 303-317

  Plotnick, Roy E ^a   Dornbos, Stephen Q ^b   Chen, Junyuan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTURBATION; CAMBRIAN; COEVOLUTION; DECISION MAKING; EDIACARAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FOSSIL RECORD; HOST PLANT; INSECT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PREDATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SHALE; SIGNAL; SIMULATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACE FOSSIL;

CHENGJIANG; CHINA; YUNNAN;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77950826829     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/08062.1     Document Type: Article

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