Fossil insect folivory tracks paleotemperature for six million years

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 547-567

  Currano, Ellen D ^a,b,d   Labandeira, Conrad C ^b,c   Wilf, Peter ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

^d MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA; Climate change; Global warming; Herbivory; Paleobotany; Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum; Paleoecology; Plant insect interaction

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; CARBON DIOXIDE; FOSSIL RECORD; GLOBAL WARMING; HERBIVORY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYPSITHERMAL; INSECT; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; TIMESCALE; TRACKING; TRACKWAY;

BIGHORN BASIN; UNITED STATES;

DICOTYLEDONEAE; HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 77956204360     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2138.1     Document Type: Article

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