The future as the key to the past for palaeobotany?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 311-316

  Beerling, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; GROWTH; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT;

BOTANY; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; FOSSIL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; REVIEW;

EID: 0031821639     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(98)01334-2     Document Type: Review

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