Broad-scale patterns of late jurassic dinosaur paleoecology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Noto, Christopher R ^a   Grossman, Ari ^b  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DINOSAUR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; UPPER JURASSIC; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PALEONTOLOGY;

DINOSAURIA;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY;

EID: 77958545421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012553     Document Type: Article

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