Predicting the effects of increasing temporal scale on species composition, diversity, and rank-abundance distributions

Paleobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 672-695

  Tomašových, Adam ^a,b   Kidwell, Susan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DATA SET; DISPERSAL; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MOLLUSC; PALEOECOLOGY; PRESERVATION; SAMPLING; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 77956574566     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/08092.1     Document Type: Article

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