Multi-variate models are essential for understanding vertebrate diversification in deep time

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 127-130

  Benson, Roger B J ^a   Mannion, Philip D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multi variate models; Palaeodiversity; Sauropodomorpha

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DINOSAUR; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTION; MACROECOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STANDARDIZATION;

DINOSAURIA; INVERTEBRATA; SAUROPODOMORPHA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84856252921     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0460     Document Type: Article

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