Effect of simulated faunal impoverishment and mixture on the ecological structure of modern mammal faunas: Implications for the reconstruction of Mio-Pliocene African palaeoenvironments

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 305, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 295-309

  Le Fur, Soizic ^a,b   Fara, Emmanuel ^c   Vignaud, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Ecological diversity; Mammal fauna; Mio Pliocene; Palaeoenvironment; Taxonomic richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BONE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; FAUNISTICS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOMINID; MAMMAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLIOCENE; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY;

AFRICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79955464175     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.03.011     Document Type: Article

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