A fossil lycopsid forest succession in the classic Joggins section of Nova Scotia: Paleoecology of a disturbance-prone Pennsylvanian wetland

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 399, Issue , 2006, Pages 169-195

  Calder, John H ^a   Gibling, Martin R ^b   Scott, Andrew C ^c   Davies, Sarah J ^d   Hebert, Brian L ^e  

^a NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e Joggins ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Carboniferous; Coal; Disturbance; Fossil forests; Invertebrates; Joggins; Lycopsids; Paleobotany; Paleoecology; Pennsylvanian; Vertebrates; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; ECOSYSTEMS; WETLANDS;

CARBONIFEROUS; DISTURBANCE; FOSSIL FORESTS; INVERTEBRATES; JOGGINS; LYCOPSIDS; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIANS; VERTEBRATES;

REFORESTATION;

ADAPTATION; CARBONIFEROUS; DISTURBANCE; FOREST; FOSSIL; HETEROGENEITY; LIGHTNING; MIOSPORE; OVERTOPPING; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; SUBMERGENCE; SUBSIDENCE; SUCCESSION; WETLAND;

CANADA; JOGGINS; NOVA SCOTIA;

ANIMALIA; CALAMITES; GYMNOSPERMAE; INVERTEBRATA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; NES; ORA; SIGILLARIA; STIGMARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 73949105223     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2399(09)     Document Type: Article

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