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RE: Were dinosaur ecosystems continent-sized? (resend)
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> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:19:25 +0000
> From: bigelowp@juno.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Were dinosaur ecosystems continent-sized? (resend)
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> My problem with the question ("Were dinosaur ecosystems continent-sized") is
> the following:
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> One clade does not an "ecosystem" make.
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> An ecosystem is just that: a system, which includes everything within it.
True. But, and this is how I read it, the original question focused on
ecosystems which harbored dinosaurs.
like how "the dodos' ecosystem" excludes organisms which didn't live on the
islands which had dodos.
and as opposed to Mesozoic ecosystems which had - for example - "crimson
crocs" but no dinosaurs.
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