Vegetation patterns of Westphalian and Lower Stephanian mire assemblages preserved in tuff beds of the continental basins of Czech Republic

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 143, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 107-154

  Opluštil, Stanislav ^a   Pšenička, Josef ^b   Libertín, Milan ^c   Šimůnek, Zbyněk ^d  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen   (Czech Republic)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

fossiliferous tuffs; Palaeoecology; Pennsylvanian; plant assemblages

Indexed keywords

CLIMAX; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MIRE; OCEAN BASIN; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STEPHANIAN; TUFF; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION COVER; WESTPHALIAN;

BOHEMIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; INTRASUDETIC BASIN;

CALAMITES; FILICOPHYTA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA;

EID: 33846983580     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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