Dinosaurs in decline tens of millions of years before their final extinction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 5036-5040

  Sakamoto, Manabu ^a   Benton, Michael J ^b   Venditti, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Dinosaurs; Evolution; Phylogeny; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DINOSAUR; END CRETACEOUS MASS EXTINCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; EXTINCT SPECIES; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84965124637     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1521478113     Document Type: Article

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