Climbing and scrambling growth habits: common life strategies among late Carboniferous seed ferns

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 326, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 583-588

  Kerp, Hans ^a   Krings, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; FERN; FOSSIL PLANT; GROWTH FORM; GROWTH HABIT; PALAEOBOTANY; PTERIDOSPERM; SEED FERN;

EID: 0032052297     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(98)80210-3     Document Type: Article

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