Range change in Metasequoia: Relationship to palaeoclimate

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-127

  Liu, Yan Ju ^a,b,c   Arens, Nan Crystal ^d   Li, Cheng Sen ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Beijing Centre for Physical and Chemical Analysis   (China)

^d HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

^e Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Cenozoic; Cretaceous; Northern Hemisphere; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CRETACEOUS; DECIDUOUS TREE; FOSSIL RECORD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RANGE SIZE; RECONSTRUCTION; REGENERATION; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE; TERTIARY;

METASEQUOIA; METASEQUOIA GLYPTOSTROBOIDES;

EID: 34248589893     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2007.00597.x     Document Type: Article

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