Diversity in neotropical wet forests during the Cenozoic is linked more to atmospheric Co2 than temperature

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1764, 2013, Pages

  Royer, Dana L ^a   Chernoff, Barry ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Cenozoic; Neotropics; Plant diversity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; EOCENE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGENE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

COLOMBIA; VENEZUELA;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANGIOSPERM; BIODIVERSITY; COLOMBIA; POLLEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; VENEZUELA;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLOMBIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLLEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84892982631     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1024     Document Type: Article

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