The Impact of Global Warming and Anoxia on Marine Benthic Community Dynamics: An Example from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic)

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Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Danise, Silvia ^a   Twitchett, Richard J ^a   Little, Crispin T S ^b   Clémence, Marie Emilie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BENTHIC FAUNA; BENTHOS; BIODEGRADATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOSSIL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HYPOXIA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION RECOVERY; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT; SURVIVAL; TOARCIAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GLOBAL WARMING; HISTORY, ANCIENT; OXYGEN;

EID: 84874007613     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056255     Document Type: Article

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