No post-Cretaceous ecosystem depression in European forests? Rich insect-feeding damage on diverse middle Palaeocene plants, Menat, France

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1677, 2009, Pages 4271-4277

  Wappler, Torsten ^a   Currano, Ellen D ^b,c   Wilf, Peter ^d   Rust, Jes ^a   Labandeira, Conrad C ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^f Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

End Cretaceous extinction; Europe; Herbivory; Palaeocene; Plant insect interactions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; FOSSIL RECORD; MASS EXTINCTION; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; CRETACEOUS; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FOREST; FOSSIL; FRANCE; HERBIVORE; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PALEOCENE; PLANT; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FRANCE; UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 72749120241     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1255     Document Type: Article

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