Extinction and recovery patterns of the vegetation across the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary - a tool for unravelling the causes of the end-Permian mass-extinction

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 144, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 99-112

  Vajda, Vivi ^a   McLoughlin, Stephen ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cretaceous Palaeogene; mass extinction; palaeobotany; palynology; Permian Triassic; vegetation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY; CRETACEOUS; GYMNOSPERM; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOGENE; PALYNOLOGY; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

ACRITARCHA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILICOPHYTA; FUNGI; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PTERIDOPHYTA; SPERMATOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33847656695     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2005.09.007     Document Type: Article

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