How plants changed the world: Using qualitative reasoning to explain plant macroevolution's effect on the long-term carbon cycle

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 17, Issue , 2013, Pages 117-142

  Kansou, Kamal ^a   Nuttle, Tim ^b,c   Farnsworth, Katie ^b   Bredeweg, Bert ^d  

^a INRA   (France)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Civ and Environ Consultants Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Long term carbon cycle; Modeling for education; Qualitative modeling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COLONIZATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; MACROECOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; SILICATE;

EID: 84884978794     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2013.02.004     Document Type: Article

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