Is the 'Lost World' really lost? Palaeoecological insights into the origin of the peculiar flora of the Guayana Highlands

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 139-142

  Rull, Valentí ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; ISOLATION EFFECT; PALEOECOLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FLORA; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; POLLEN; SEDIMENT; SPECIES ENDEMICITY; VEGETATION; VENEZUELA;

ALTITUDE; CLIMATE; FOSSILS; GUYANA; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; SOUTH AMERICA;

GUYANA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 1842688809     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-004-0504-1     Document Type: Article

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