Global vegetation dynamics and latitudinal temperature gradients during the Mid to Late Miocene (15.97-5.33Ma)

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 1-22

  Pound, Matthew J ^a,b,c   Haywood, Alan M ^a   Salzmann, Ulrich ^b   Riding, James B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biome; Climate; Global change; Latitudinal gradient; Miocene; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIOME; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; MESSINIAN; MIOCENE; PALEOBOTANY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VEGETATION;

EID: 84859712982     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2012.02.005     Document Type: Review

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