The role of Quaternary environmental change in plant macroevolution: the exception or the rule?

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on February 29, 2004

Authors

Katherine J Willis1, Karl J Niklas

Author Affiliations

1: School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TB, UK. kathy.willis@geog.ox.ac.uk

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