The high fidelity of the cetacean stranding record: Insights into measuring diversity by integrating taphonomy and macroecology

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1724, 2011, Pages 3608-3616

  Pyenson, Nicholas D ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Fossil record; Macroecology; Strandings; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

CETACEAN; COASTAL ZONE; CORRELATION; DATA SET; FOSSIL RECORD; MACROECOLOGY; NATURALIZATION; OCEAN BASIN; PALEOBIOLOGY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAPHONOMY;

CETACEA;

EID: 80054909441     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0441     Document Type: Article

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