Out of Borneo: biogeography, phylogeny and divergence date estimates of Artocarpus (Moraceae)

EW Williams, EM Gardner, R Harris III… - Annals of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The breadfruit genus (Artocarpus, Moraceae) includes
valuable underutilized fruit tree crops with a centre of diversity in Southeast Asia. It belongs …

Settling the issue of “decoupling” between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature:[CO2] atm reconstructions across the warming Paleogene-Neogene …

T Tesfamichael, B Jacobs, N Tabor, L Michel… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Recent variations in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide ([CO 2] atm) have
been shown to affect carbon fixation during photosynthesis and are correlated with …

Cell anatomy and leaf δ13C as proxies for shading and canopy structure in a Miocene forest from Ethiopia

RT Bush, J Wallace, ED Currano, BF Jacobs… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
Plant fossils are most commonly preserved as isolated organs, making it difficult to
determine plant life habit or ecosystem structure from fossils. In particular, paleoecologists …

A glimpse at the ectotherms of the earliest fauna from the East African Rift (Lokone, Late Oligocene of Kenya)

O Otero, G Garcia, X Valentin, F Lihoreau… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We describe here an ichthyological and herpetological assemblage that was obtained from
washing-screening sediments from the early late Oligocene locality of Lokone, Kenya. This …

Nitrogen-fixing symbiosis inferred from stable isotope analysis of fossil tree rings from the Oligocene of Ethiopia

EL Gulbranson, BF Jacobs, WC Hockaday… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The acquisition of reduced nitrogen (N) is essential for plant life, and plants have developed
numerous strategies and symbioses with soil microorganisms to acquire this form of N. The …

[PDF][PDF] Arsinoitherium (Embrithopoda) and other large mammals and plants from the Oligocene of Tunisia

M Pickford - Fossil Imprint, 2017 - fi.nm.cz
Palaeogene large mammals are poorly represented in Tunisia, in contrast to Morocco,
Algeria, Libya and Egypt, where abundant and diverse faunas are known. Oligocene …

The role of the Levant in 135 million years of angiosperm evolution: a review

O Katz - Israel Journal of Plant Sciences, 2017 - brill.com
The Levant's biogeographic setting also makes it a palaeobiologically significant location, as
will be demonstrated here for the past 135 million years of plant evolution. Some of the …

[PDF][PDF] New Oligocene vertebrate localities from Northern Kenya (Turkana Basin)

JR Boisserie, C Delmer, MG Leakey, F Lihoreau - academia.edu
ST EPHANE DUCROCQ,*, 1 JEAN-RENAUD BOISSERIE, 1 JEAN-JACQUES TIERCELIN, 2
CYRILLE DELMER, 3 GERALDINE GARCIA, 1 MANTHI FREDERICK KYALO, 4 MEAVE G …

[PDF][PDF] A new Titanohyrax species from the Priabonian of Dakhla, Morocco, bridges a gap in the fossil record of the 'giant'hyracoids (Mammalia)

R Tabuce, S Adnet, M Benammi… - The First West African …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Living representatives of the mammalian order Hyracoidea are poorly diversified with only
three small-sized genera restricted to Africa and Middle East. Conversely, during the …