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Palaeoecology: North–South recovery divide

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Plant–insect interactions reveal rapid recovery of terrestrial ecosystems in the Southern Hemisphere after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, at more than twice the rate of contemporaneous Northern Hemisphere ecosystems.

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Figure 1: Plant–insect associations from Patagonia before and after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event.

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Tosolini, AM. Palaeoecology: North–South recovery divide. Nat Ecol Evol 1, 0033 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-016-0033

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