Physiognomic and chemical characters in wood as palaeoclimate proxies

Plant Ecology

Volumn 182, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 175-195

  Poole, Imogen ^a,b   Bergen, Pim F Van ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Fossil wood; Lignin; Stable Isotopes; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANGIOSPERM; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL; GEOLOGICAL TIME; LIGNIN; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING; WOOD;

CONIFEROPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 33745200984     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-005-9025-z     Document Type: Review

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