Cenozoic Mammals and Climate Change: The Contrast between Coarse-Scale versus High-Resolution Studies Explained by Species Sorting
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
2.1. The Eocene-Oligocene Transition
2.2. The Late Pleistocene
3. Discussion
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
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Prothero, D. Cenozoic Mammals and Climate Change: The Contrast between Coarse-Scale versus High-Resolution Studies Explained by Species Sorting. Geosciences 2012, 2, 25-41. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences2020025
Prothero D. Cenozoic Mammals and Climate Change: The Contrast between Coarse-Scale versus High-Resolution Studies Explained by Species Sorting. Geosciences. 2012; 2(2):25-41. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences2020025
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