Nurse logs: An ecological strategy in a late Paleozoic forest from the southern Andean region

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 295-298

  Cesari S N ^a   Busquets, P ^b   Piñol, F Colombo ^b   Bedia, I Méndez ^c   Limarino, C O ^d  

^a Museo de Ciencias Naturales B Rivadavia   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERENCHYMA; ANDEAN REGION; COASTAL LAGOONS; COMMON FEATURES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; IN-PLANTS; LATE PALEOZOIC; TREE SPECIES;

ECOLOGY; NURSING; VEGETATION; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

REFORESTATION;

DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOZOIC; REGENERATION; ROOT SYSTEM; SEEDLING;

ECOLOGY; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; ROCK; VOLCANISM;

ARGENTINA; SAN JUAN [ARGENTINA];

EID: 77954156366     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30557.1     Document Type: Article

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