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Shell-Breaking Predation through Time

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Biotic Interactions in Recent and Fossil Benthic Communities

Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology ((TGBI,volume 3))

Abstract

One question that can be asked only of the fossil record is whether largescale changes in the conditions of life have taken place in the course of earth history. This can be done by tracing changes through time in functional morphology. In the past, functional morphology has been applied to particular organisms. Now that many species have been studied in this way, a broader view can be taken, in which the rise and fall of adaptive types can be ascertained in relation to environmental changes.

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Vermeij, G.J. (1983). Shell-Breaking Predation through Time. In: Tevesz, M.J.S., McCall, P.L. (eds) Biotic Interactions in Recent and Fossil Benthic Communities. Topics in Geobiology, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0740-3_13

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