Graptoloid evolutionary rates track ordovician-Silurian global climate change

Geological Magazine

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 349-364

  Cooper, Roger A ^a   Sadler, Peter M ^b   Munnecke, Axel ^c   Crampton, James S ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climatic forcing; Diversity; Extinction; Plankton

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; CURVE FITTING; ISOTOPES; LIGHT EXTINCTION; PLANKTON;

CLIMATIC FORCING; DIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS; EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; ISOTOPE EXCURSION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECHINODERM; EXTINCTION; GRAPTOLITE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; PLANKTON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE;

GRAPTOLOIDEA;

EID: 84894520534     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756813000198     Document Type: Article

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