Rise to dominance of angiosperm pioneers in European cretaceous environments

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

Volumn 109, Issue 51, 2012, Pages 20955-20959

  Coiffard, Clément ^a   Gomez, Bernard ^b   Daviero Gomez, Véronique ^b   Dilcher, David L ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early angiosperms; Ecology; Evolution in time and space; Vegetation turnover

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; ANGIOSPERM; APTIAN; ARTICLE; BARREMIAN; CAMPANIAN; CENOMANIAN; CONIFER; CRETACEOUS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FERN; FLOODPLAIN; FOSSIL PLANT; LAKE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWAMP; WETLAND;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BOTANY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FERNS; FOSSILS; GYMNOSPERMS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84871369974     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218633110     Document Type: Article

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