Stable carbon isotope evidence for the abundance of C4 plants in the middle Miocene of southern California

The abrupt spread of grasslands using C4 photosynthesis, sometimes referred to as the rapid increase in C4 ecosystems (RICE), occurred in the late Miocene in North America. While fossil plant specimens from the Miocene Dove Spring Formation of California as well as data from phylogenetic studies and...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2013-10, Vol.388, p.42-47
Hauptverfasser:	Feranec, Robert S., Pagnac, Darrin
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Barstow Formation C4 grasses Carbon isotopes Equidae Gomphotherium Miocene Ungulates
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