Fire and fire-adapted vegetation promoted C 4 expansion in the late Miocene

New Phytologist

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 653-666

  Scheiter, Simon ^a   Higgins, Steven I ^b   Osborne, Colin P ^c   Bradshaw, Catherine ^d   Lunt, Dan ^d   Ripley, Brad S ^e   Taylor, Lyla L ^c   Beerling, David J ^c  

^a SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^e RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamic global vegetation model (aDGVM); C 4 expansion; CO 2 starvation hypothesis; Dynamic vegetation model; Fire adaptation; Grassland; Late Miocene; Savanna

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADAPTATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; C4 PLANT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVOLUTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRASS; GRASSLAND; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIOCENE; PALEOBOTANY; RANGE EXPANSION; SAVANNA; TOLERANCE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDFIRE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FIRE; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POACEAE; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; POACEAE; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

POACEAE;

EID: 84863782330     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04202.x     Document Type: Article

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