Response of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian plant communities to climate change

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue , 2001, Pages 461-487

  DiMichele, W A ^a   Pfefferkorn, H W ^a   Gastaldo, R A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biome; Coal; Ecosystem stability; Extinction; Glaciation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GLACIERS; OSCILLATIONS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

DRY FLORAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBONIFEROUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; GLACIATION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PERMIAN;

EID: 0034983333     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.29.1.461     Document Type: Article

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