Temporal Change in Functional Richness and Evenness in the Eastern African Plio-Pleistocene Carnivoran Guild

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Werdelin, Lars ^a   Lewis, Margaret E ^b  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FAUNA; FOSSIL; FUNCTIONAL EVENNESS; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AFRICA, EASTERN; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84874599547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057944     Document Type: Article

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