Terrestrial vegetation and its effects on climate during the latest Cretaceous

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 332, Issue , 1999, Pages 407-426

  Upchurch Jr , G R ^a   Otto Bliesner, B L ^b   Scotese, C R ^c  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

COMPARISON OF MODELS; FOREST VEGETATION; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MODEL SIMULATION; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION; VEGETATION COVER; WOODLAND VEGETATION;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALBEDO; BARE SOIL; CRETACEOUS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAND SURFACE; MAASTRICHTIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; WOODLAND;

EID: 84870868738     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2332-9.407     Document Type: Article

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