Was the Devonian radiation of large predatory fish a consequence of rising atmospheric oxygen concentration?

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

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Butterfield, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ATMOSPHERE; BENTHOS; BODY SIZE; DEVONIAN; ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY; ESTUARY; FISH; FOSSIL ANIMAL; HYPOXIA; LETTER; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN BREATHING; PALEOZOIC; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEROZOIC;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; BASAL METABOLISM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; FISHES; FOSSILS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYGEN; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952760681     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1018072108     Document Type: Letter

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