Testing the role of competition in fossil communities using limiting similarity

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-18

  Hermoyian, Casey S ^a   Leighton, Lindsey R ^a   Kaplan, Peter ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachiopoda; Communities; Competition; Morphology; Ordovician; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; MORPHOLOGY; PROBABILITY;

FOSSILS;

GEOLOGY;

FOSSIL RECORD; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORPHOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOECOLOGY;

BRACHIOPODA;

EID: 84874985313     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0015:TTROCI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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