Biopores and root features as new tools for improving paleoecological understanding of terrestrial sediment-paleosol sequences

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 394, Issue , 2014, Pages 42-58

  Gocke, Martina ^a   Gulyás, Sándor ^b   Hambach, Ulrich ^a   Jovanović, Mladen ^c   Kovács, Gábor ^d   Marković, Slobodan B ^c   Wiesenberg, Guido L B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WEST HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calcified roots; Dune sands; Loess; Pseudomycelia; Root frequency; Rooting depth

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOLOGY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DUNE; INHOMOGENEITY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSOL; PARENT MATERIAL; RHIZOLITH; RHIZOSPHERE; ROOT SYSTEM; ROOTING; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSOIL; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSIT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84890823857     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.11.010     Document Type: Article

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