Carbon dioxide starvation, the development of C4 ecosystems, and mammalian evolution

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1365, 1998, Pages 159-171

  Cerling, T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; CO2; Evolution; Grassland; Neogene

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; C4; CARBON DIOXIDE; EVOLUTION; MAMMAL; PALAEOCLIMATE; VEGETATION;

EID: 0032576671     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0198     Document Type: Article

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