Vegetation history, diversity patterns, and climate change across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary

Paleobiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 240-264

  Bonis, Nina R ^a,b   Kürschner, Wolfram M ^a,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BIODIVERSITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; FERN; GREENHOUSE GAS; JURASSIC; LIVERWORT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; MOSS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALEOBOTANY; PALYNOLOGY; PANGAEA; RECONSTRUCTION; RHAETIAN; SHALLOW WATER; SPORE; TETHYS; VEGETATION HISTORY; VOLCANISM;

AUSTRIA; ENGLAND; SAINT AUDRIE'S BAY; SOMERSET; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHEIROLEPIDIACEAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LYCOPODIOPHYTA; MARCHANTIOPHYTA;

EID: 84859592102     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/09071.1     Document Type: Article

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