Estimation of temperature and precipitation from morphological characters of dicotyledonous leaves

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1796-1802

  Wiemann, Michael C ^a   Manchester, Steven R ^a   Dilcher, David L ^a   Hinojosa, Luis Felipe ^b   Wheeler, Elisabeth A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Laboratorio de Sistematica y Ecologa Vegetal   (Chile)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis; Leaf morphology; Leaf physiognomy; Multiple linear regression; Paleoclimate; Simple linear regression

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; FOSSIL RECORD; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032229888     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2446514     Document Type: Article

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