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Fire-adapted Gondwanan Angiosperm floras evolved in the Cretaceous

BACKGROUND: Fires have been widespread over the last 250 million years, peaking 60−125 million years ago (Ma), and might therefore have played a key role in the evolution of Angiosperms. Yet it is commonly believed that fireprone communities existed only after the global climate became more arid and...

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Autores principales: Lamont, Byron B, He, Tianhua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3534566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23171161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-223