Carbon sources for the palaeozoic giant fungus prototaxites inferred from modern analogues

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1691, 2010, Pages 2149-2156

  Hobbie, Erik A ^a   Boyce, C Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Devonian vegetation; Fossil plants; Saprotrophic fungi

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BODY SIZE; CARBON ISOTOPE; COEXISTENCE; DEVONIAN; FLOODPLAIN; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNGUS; HETEROTROPHY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MELTWATER; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SAPROTROPHY; SOIL CARBON; TAXONOMY; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CASCADE RANGE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 77955386154     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0201     Document Type: Article

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