African baobabs with false inner cavities: The radiocarbon investigation of the Lebombo eco trail baobab

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Patrut, Adrian ^a   Woodborne, Stephan ^b   Von Reden, Karl F ^c   Hall, Grant ^d   Hofmeyr, Michele ^e   Lowy, Daniel A ^f   Patrut, Roxana T ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b ITHEMBA LABS   (South Africa)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

^f Nova University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN BAOBAB; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED TREE; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANNUAL RING; ARTICLE; BARK; FALSE INNER CAVITY ANNUAL RING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; LEBOMBO ECO TRAIL TREE; MOZAMBIQUE; NONHUMAN; PLANT AGE; PLANT STRUCTURES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TREE; TREE GROWTH; TREE TRUNK; WOOD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALVACEAE;

ADANSONIA DIGITATA;

MALVACEAE; MOZAMBIQUE; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

EID: 84922032793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117193     Document Type: Article

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