Increase in evenness and sampled alpha diversity through the Phanerozoic: Comparison of early Paleozoic and Cenozoic marine fossil assemblages

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 331-334

  Powell, Matthew G ^a   Kowalewski, Michal ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Diversity; Invertebrates; Phanerozoic; Sampling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY;

FOSSIL SAMPLES;

GEOLOGY;

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; INVERTEBRATE; PHANEROZOIC; SAMPLING; SPECIES EVENNESS;

EID: 84874959840     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0331:IIEASA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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