Modern tropical forest taphonomy: Does high biodiversity affect paleoclimatic interpretations?

Palaios

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 439-451

  Burnham, Robyn J ^a   Ellis, Beth ^b   Johnson, Kirk R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; PALEOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TAPHONOMY;

EID: 27144518015     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2004.P04-60     Document Type: Article

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