Phanerozoic marine biodiversity: A fresh look at data, methods, patterns and processes

Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-22

  Aberhan, Martin ^a   Kiessling, Wolfgang ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytical methods; Biases; Carrying capacity; Diversity thresholds; Palaeobiodiversity; Sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962591314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3428-1_1     Document Type: Chapter

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