Assessing Paleo-Biodiversity Using Low Proxy Influx

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Blarquez, Olivier ^a,b,c   Finsinger, Walter ^a   Carcaillet, Christopher ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HERB; LOW PROXY INFLUX; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN ANALYSIS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; TREES;

EID: 84878949493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065852     Document Type: Article

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