Plants Invade the Land

Plants Invade the Land

Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives

  • Autor: Gensel, Patricia; Edwards, Dianne
  • Editor: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231504966
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231504966
  • Lloc de publicació:  New York , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2001
  • Mes: Febrer
  • Idioma: Anglés
What do we now know about the origins of plants on land, from an evolutionary and an environmental perspective? The essays in this collection present a synthesis of our present state of knowledge, integrating current information in paleobotany with physical, chemical, and geological data.
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Embryophytes on Land: The Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) Record
  • 3. Rustling in the Undergrowth: Animals in Early Terrestrial Ecosystems
  • 4. New Data on Nothia aphylla Lyon 1964 ex El-Saadawy et Lacey 1979, a Poorly Known Plant from the Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert
  • 5. Morphology of Above- and Below-Ground Structures in Early Devonian (Pragian–Emsian) Plants
  • 6. The Posongchong Floral Assemblages of Southeastern Yunnan, China—Diversity and Disparity in Early Devonian Plant Assemblages
  • 7. The Middle Devonian Flora Revisited
  • 8. The Origin, Morphology, and Ecophysiology of Early Embryophytes: Neontological and Paleontological Perspectives
  • 9. Biological Roles for Phenolic Compounds in the Evolution of Early Land Plants
  • 10. The Effect of the Rise of Land Plants on Atmospheric CO2 During the Paleozoic
  • 11. Early Terrestrial Plant Environments: An Example from the Emsian of Gaspé, Canada
  • 12. Effects of the Middle to Late Devonian Spreadof Vascular Land Plants on Weathering Regimes,Marine Biotas, and Global Climate
  • 13. Diversification of Siluro-Devonian Plant Traces in Paleosols and Influence on Estimates of Paleoatmospheric CO2 Levels
  • References
  • Index

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