Surprisingly complex community discovered in the mid-Devonian fossil forest at Gilboa

Nature

Volumn 483, Issue 7387, 2012, Pages 78-81

  Stein, William E ^a   Berry, Christopher M ^b   Hernick, Linda Vanaller ^c   Mannolini, Frank ^c  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEVONIAN; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL RECORD; MUDSTONE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; RHIZOME; SANDSTONE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVONIAN; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EOSPERMATOPTERIS; FOREST; FOSSIL; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TREE; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; CAMBIUM; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FOSSILS; NEW YORK; PLANT ROOTS; RHIZOME; SOIL; TREES; WETLANDS; WOOD;

GILBOA; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

CLADOXYLOPSIDA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA;

EID: 84857757130     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10819     Document Type: Article

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