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dc.contributor.author Janzen, Daniel H.
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-21T22:37:49Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-21T22:37:49Z
dc.date.issued 1986-07
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11606/1206
dc.description.abstract Extinction events range from those that remove a single population from a local habitat to those megacatastrophes that obliterate tens of thousands of species over continents or oceans. When considering megacatastrophes, and especially whether a particular fossil cnronology documents one of the latter, catastrophes are generally viewed as short-term events with snorHerm direct consequences: the catastrophe occurs, species go extinct, and ambient conditions rapidly return to "normal" (after which the survivors spread, multiply, re-radiate, etc.). However, the pre-catastrophe presence of widespread species may blur our perception of a catastrophic event, since their resultant extinctions may occur hundreds to thousands of years after the event. Such a paleoscenario is relevant to the contemporary scene in tropical conservation biology; we are currently being deceived by the same blurry perception. es_CR
dc.language.iso en es_CR
dc.title Blurry Catastrophes es_CR
dc.type Article es_CR


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