New insights into early land ecosystems: A glimpse of a Lilliputian world

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 90, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 159-174

  Edwards, Dianne ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; LAND ECOSYSTEM; MESOFOSSIL; PALAEOECOLOGY; SILURIAN; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

UK, ENGLAND, WELSH BORDERLAND; UK, WALES; UK, WALES, WELSH BORDERLAND;

EID: 0029772026     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(95)00081-X     Document Type: Article

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