Terrestrial ecosystem responses to global environmental change across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 2149-2152

  Lomax, B H ^a   Beerling, D J ^a   Upchurch Jr , G R ^b   Otto Bliesner, B L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Texas State University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; MASS EXTINCTION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; RAIN; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GAS EMISSIONS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; CLIMATE SIMULATION; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

ECOSYSTEMS; CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM);

EID: 0034352773     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011097     Document Type: Article

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