The fossil record of plant-insect dynamics

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue , 2013, Pages 287-311

  Labandeira, Conrad C ^a,b,c,d   Currano, Ellen D ^e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

^e MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage type; End Cretaceous event; Functional feeding group; Herbivory; Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum; Pollination

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE TYPE; END-CRETACEOUS EVENT; FUNCTIONAL FEEDING GROUPS; HERBIVORY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; POLLINATION;

ECOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANGIOSPERM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL RECORD; HYPSITHERMAL; INSECT; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POLLINATION;

HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84876284901     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-050212-124139     Document Type: Article

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