Biotic interactions in an exceptionally well preserved osmundaceous fern rhizome from the Early Jurassic of Sweden

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 464, Issue , 2016, Pages 86-96

  McLoughlin, Stephen ^a   Bomfleur, Benjamin ^a  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fungi; Lycopsids; Mesozoic; Oribatid mites; Osmundaceae; Peronosporomycetes; Plant animal interactions

Indexed keywords

DETRITIVORY; DETRITUS; EPIPHYTE; FERN; FUNGUS; HERBIVORY; HOST PLANT; JURASSIC; MITE; MYCOPHAGY; PARASITISM; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PRESERVATION; RHIZOME; SAPROTROPHY;

SWEDEN;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; FILICOPHYTA; FUNGI; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; OOMYCETES; ORIBATIDA; OSMUNDACEAE;

EID: 84959174122     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.01.044     Document Type: Article

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