The impact of the species-area relationship on estimates of paleodiversity.

Estimates of paleodiversity patterns through time have relied on datasets that lump taxonomic occurrences from geographic areas of varying size per interval of time. In essence, such estimates assume that the species-area effect, whereby more species are recorded from larger geographic areas, is neg...

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Main Authors: Anthony D Barnosky, Marc A Carrasco, Edward B Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2005-08-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1175821?pdf=render