The timing and pattern of biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 375-383

  Chen, Zhong Qiang ^a   Benton, Michael J ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID RAIN; ACIDIFICATION; AMMONITE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE VARIATION; CRUSTACEAN; DINOSAUR; EMERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MASS EXTINCTION; PERMIAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; TRIASSIC; TROPHIC LEVEL;

AMMONOIDEA; CRUSTACEA; DINOSAURIA; REPTILIA; TETRAPODA;

EID: 84861680684     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1475     Document Type: Review

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