Some data on the potential use of leaf venation density as a palaeoclimatic proxy in leaves from the Permocarboniferous

Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie - Abhandlungen

Volumn 223, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 405-432

  Uhl, Dieter ^a,b   Mosbrugger, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; TAXONOMY; TRANSPIRATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

CARBONIFEROUS;

EID: 0042812194     PISSN: 00777749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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