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Spiny plants, mammal browsers, and the origin of African savannas

Savannas first began to spread across Africa during the Miocene. A major hypothesis for explaining this vegetation change is the increase in C(4) grasses, promoting fire. We investigated whether mammals could also have contributed to savanna expansion by using spinescence as a marker of mammal herbi...

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Опубликовано в: :Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Главные авторы: Charles-Dominique, Tristan, Davies, T. Jonathan, Hempson, Gareth P., Bezeng, Bezeng S., Daru, Barnabas H., Kabongo, Ronny M., Maurin, Olivier, Muasya, A. Muthama, van der Bank, Michelle, Bond, William J.
Формат: Artigo
Язык:Inglês
Опубликовано: National Academy of Sciences 2016
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Online-ссылка:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5035896/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27601649
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607493113
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