Paleontology: Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5750, 2005, Pages 993-996

  Wing, Scott L ^a   Harrington, Guy J ^b   Smith, Francesca A ^a,c   Bloch, Jonathan I ^d   Boyer, Douglas M ^e   Freeman, Katherine H ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

FLORAL CHANGE; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM (PETM); UNITED STATES;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; RAIN;

FLORA; GLOBAL WARMING; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EOCENE; FLORA; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; PALEOCENE; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PRECIPITATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WYOMING;

EID: 27744455464     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1116913     Document Type: Article

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