Fossil pollen records reveal a late rise of open-habitat ecosystems in Patagonia

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Palazzesi, Luis ^a   Barreda, Viviana ^a  

^a MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; DOMINANCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALYNOLOGY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EPHEDRA; EXTINCT SPECIES; FEEDING; FOSSIL; GRASS; HABITAT; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POLLEN; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION;

PATAGONIA;

EPHEDRA; MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 84871789207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2299     Document Type: Article

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