Mineral weathering and soil development in the earliest land plant ecosystems

Geology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1007-1010

  Mitchell, Ria L ^a   Cuadros, Javier ^a   Duckett, Jeffrey G ^a   Pressel, Silvia ^a   Mavris, Christian ^a   Sykes, Dan ^b   Najorka, Jens ^a   Edgecombe, Gregory D ^a   Kenrick, Paul ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FUNGI; GEOCHRONOLOGY; WEATHERING;

BACTERIAL SYMBIONTS; BIOTIC INTERACTIONS; DOMINANT PLANTS; MINERAL WEATHERING; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; SOIL DEVELOPMENT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; X RAY MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

SOILS;

COLONIZATION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOSOL; PALEOZOIC; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WEATHERING;

ICELAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; MARCHANTIOPHYTA;

EID: 85002735541     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G38449.1     Document Type: Article

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