Shifting sources of productivity in the coastal marine tropics during the Cenozoic era

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1716, 2011, Pages 2362-2368

  Vermeij, Geerat J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body size; Guilds; Mollusca; Neogene; Palaeogene; Productivity

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CENOZOIC; COASTAL ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EOCENE; FILTER FEEDER; GUILD STRUCTURE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOLLUSC; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PLANKTON; PREDATOR; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE USE; SHALLOW WATER; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLLUSC; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANKTON; SEA; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOLLUSCA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANKTON; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 79959749495     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2362     Document Type: Article

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