Flammable biomes dominated by eucalypts originated at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Crisp, Michael D ^a   Burrows, Geoffrey E ^b   Cook, Lyn G ^c   Thornhill, Andrew H ^a   Bowman, David M J S ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOME; CRETACEOUS; EUCALYPTUS; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FLAMMABILITY; FOREST; MYRTACEAE; NONHUMAN; PALEOGENE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SAVANNA;

EUCALYPTUS; MYRTACEAE;

EID: 84859823079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1191     Document Type: Article

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