Evolution of the earliest horses driven by climate change in the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum

Science

Volumn 335, Issue 6071, 2012, Pages 959-962

  Secord, Ross ^a,b   Bloch, Jonathan I ^b   Chester, Stephen G B ^c   Boyer, Doug M ^d   Wood, Aaron R ^b,e   Wing, Scott L ^f   Kraus, Mary J ^g   McInerney, Francesca A ^h   Krigbaum, John ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e South Dakota School of Mines Technology   (United States)

^f DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Department of Anthropology University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN;

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; HORSE; MAGNITUDE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RESEARCH WORK; RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EOCENE; EVOLUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HORSE; HUMIDITY; NONHUMAN; PALEOCENE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84857547268     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1213859     Document Type: Article

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