Generating empirically determined, continuous measures of leaf shape for paleoclimate reconstruction

Palaios

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 212-219

  Krieger, Jonathan D ^a   Guralnick, Robert P ^a,b   Smith, Dena M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOSSIL RECORD; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 34548278834     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2005.p05-079r     Document Type: Article

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