Fire-adapted Gondwanan Angiosperm floras evolved in the Cretaceous

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lamont, Byron B ^a,b   He, Tianhua ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive traits; Cretaceous; Fire; Paleoecology; Proteaceae; Seed storage

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANGIOSPERM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CRETACEOUS; FIRE BEHAVIOR; HABITAT TYPE; OXYGEN; PALEOECOLOGY; RAINFOREST; SEROTINY;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADENANTHOS; CONOSPERMUM; LEUCADENDRON; LEUCOSPERMUM; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PETROPHILE; PROTEA; PROTEACEAE; PROTEOIDEAE;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; PROTEACEAE; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME;

ANGIOSPERMS; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FIRES; FOSSILS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLLEN; PROTEACEAE; SEEDS; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84869874812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-223     Document Type: Article

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