Early triassic marine biotic recovery: The predators' perspective

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Scheyer, Torsten M ^a   Romano, Carlo ^a   Jenks, Jim ^b,c   Bucher, Hugo ^a  

^a PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

^b New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science ^*

^c NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANISIAN; ARTIFACT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BONY FISH; CARTILAGINOUS FISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FISH; LOWER TRIASSIC; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PREDATION; PREDATOR; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPTILE; REVIEW; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY; TETRAPOD; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; FOSSIL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPTILES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84898606243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088987     Document Type: Review

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