Computer models of early land plant evolution

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue , 2004, Pages 47-66

  Niklas, Karl J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Computer simulations; Morphology optimization; Paleobotany; Vascular plants

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; STABILITY;

MORPHOSPACES; PLANT EVOLUTION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EVOLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOBOTANY; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION;

EID: 3042658504     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.32.092203.122440     Document Type: Article

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