The energetics of modernization: The last one hundred million years of biotic evolution

Paleontological Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 54-61

  Vermeij, Geerat J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; escalation; innovation; productivity; tectonics

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BIOENERGETICS; BIOEROSION; BIOTURBATION; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FISH; FUNGUS; GASTROPOD; INSECT; LIFE HISTORY; LOCOMOTION; MODERNIZATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OXYGEN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TECTONICS;

FUNGI; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PISCES;

EID: 80051737014     PISSN: 13428144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2517/1342-8144-15.2.054     Document Type: Article

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