Late Miocene southwestern Chinese floristic diversity shaped by the southeastern uplift of the Tibetan Plateau

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 411, Issue , 2014, Pages 208-215

  Jacques, Frédéric M B ^a   Su, Tao ^a   Spicer, Robert A ^c   Xing, Yao Wu ^d   Huang, Yong Jiang ^b   Zhou, Zhe Kun ^a,b  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

China; Miocene; Palaeoaltitude; Palaeovegetation; Uplift; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENTHALPY; FLORISTICS; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; MIOCENE; PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; SOUTHEAST ASIA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84904384538     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.041     Document Type: Article

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