Cenozoic climate change shaped the evolutionary ecophysiology of the Cupressaceae conifers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 9647-9652

  Pittermann, Jarmila ^a   Stuart, Stephanie A ^b,d   Dawson, Todd E ^b   Moreau, Astrid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cavitation resistance; Photosynthesis; Plant water transport; Xylem structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CENOZOIC; CLADISTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CUPRESSACEAE; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GAS EXCHANGE; MACROFOSSIL; MESOZOIC; NONHUMAN; OLIGOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT WATER USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XYLEM;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROPHYTA; FOSSILS;

EID: 84862189292     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1114378109     Document Type: Article

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