African Pliocene and Pleistocene cercopithecid evolution and global climatic change

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402030970, 2007, Pages 51-76

  Frost, S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Afar depression; Habitat theory; Species range; Taxonomic abundance; Turkana Basin; Turnover pulse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973445317     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-3098-7_3     Document Type: Chapter

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