Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6647, 1997, Pages 153-158

  Cerling, Thure E ^a   Harris, John M ^b   MacFadden, Bruce J ^c   Leakey, Meave G ^d   Quade, Jay ^e   Eisenmann, Vera ^f   Ehieringer, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b George C Page Museum   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; C4; MIOCENE; MIOCENE-PLIOCENE BOUNDARY; PALAEOECOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLIOCENE; VEGETATION; VEGETATION CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERE; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOSSIL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VEGETATION;

EID: 0030767801     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/38229     Document Type: Review

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