Body-size reduction in vertebrates following the end-Devonian mass extinction

Science

Volumn 350, Issue 6262, 2015, Pages 812-815

  Sallan, Lauren ^a   Galimberti, Andrew K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b KALAMAZOO COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; BODY SIZE; DEVONIAN; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MASS EXTINCTION; VERTEBRATE;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOTA; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; BODY SIZE REDUCTION; BONE LENGTH; BREEDING; CLADISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; EFFECT SIZE; END DEVONIAN MASS EXTINCTION; FAMENNIAN; FERTILITY; FISH; LIFESPAN; MASS EXTINCTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SERPUKHOVIAN; SHARK; SURVIVOR; TAPHONOMY; TETRAPOD; TOURNAISIAN; UPPER DEVONIAN; VERTEBRATE; VISEAN; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TAIL;

ACTINOPTERYGII; CHONDRICHTHYES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY SIZE; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FISHES; TAIL;

EID: 84946962575     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac7373     Document Type: Article

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