ELEGANCE VERSUS SPEED: EXAMINING THE COMPETITION BETWEEN CONIFER AND ANGIOSPERM TREES

Exploring the apparent conflict for global tree dominance, we seek here to reveal patterns that explain not only how allegedly inferior conifers persist among angiosperms but also why some conifer groups became extinct in the Cretaceous.

Brodribb, T.J.; Pittermann, J.; Coomes, D.A.
2012
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