Maintenance of trophic structure in fossil mammal communities: Site occupancy and taxon resilience

American Naturalist

Volumn 164, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 614-624

  Jernvall, Jukka ^a,b   Fortelius, Mikael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ecomorphology; Herbivory; Macroevolution; Population size; Primary consumers; Trophic structure

Indexed keywords

ECOMORPHOLOGY; FOSSIL; MAMMAL; PALEONTOLOGY; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOOD CHAIN; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 8744317088     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/424967     Document Type: Article

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