A warrant for applied palaeozoology

Biological Reviews

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 513-525

  Lyman, R Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Biogeography; Community; Conservation biology; Extinction; Invasion; Natural history collections; Palaeozoology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EVOLUTION; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84863557287     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2011.00207.x     Document Type: Article

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