Modelling distributions of fossil sampling rates over time, space and taxa: Assessment and implications for macroevolutionary studies

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 703-713

  Wagner, Peter J ^a   Marcot, Jonathan D ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary biology; Macroevolution; Phylogenetics; Systematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881583545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12088     Document Type: Article

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