Climate caused biodiversity booms and busts in ancient plants and mammals
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 14:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- A period of global warming from 53 million to 47 million years ago strongly influenced plants and animals, spurring a biodiversity boom in western North America, researchers from three research museums report in a paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.