Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

@article{Field2018EarlyEO,
  title={Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction},
  author={Daniel J. Field and A. D. Bercovici and Jacob S. Berv and Regan E. Dunn and David Fastovsky and Tyler R. Lyson and Vivi Vajda and Jacques A. Gauthier},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2018},
  volume={28},
  pages={1825-1831.e2}
}
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