On the origin of Northern and Southern hemisphere grasslands

Plant Ecology

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 209-229

  Bredenkamp, G J ^a   Spada, F ^b   Kazmierczak, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

C4 PLANT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EOCENE; GRASSLAND; PALEOECOLOGY;

EID: 0036446115     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020957807971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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