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Plants invade the land : evolutionary and environmental perspectives / editors, Patricia G. Gensel, Dianne Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history series.
- Critical moments and perspectives in earth history and paleobiology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleobotany.
- Plants--Evolution.
- Plants.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (843 p.)
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1. Introduction / Gensel, Patricia G.
- 2. Embryophytes on Land: The Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) Record / Edwards, Dianne / Wellman, Charles
- 3 Rustling in the Undergrowth: Animals in Early Terrestrial Ecosystems / Shear, William A. / Selden, Paul A.
- 4. New Data on Nothia aphylla Lyon 1964 ex El-Saadawy et Lacey 1979, a Poorly Known Plant from the Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert / Kerp, Hans / Hass, Hagen / Mosbrugger, Volker
- 5. Morphology of Above- and Below-Ground Structures in Early Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) Plants / Gensel, Patricia G. / Kotyk, Michele E. / Basinger, James F.
- 6. The Posongchong Floral Assemblages of Southeastern Yunnan, China-Diversity and Disparity in Early Devonian Plant Assemblages / Shou-Gang, Hao / Gensel, Patricia G.
- 7. The Middle Devonian Flora Revisited / Berry, Christopher M. / Fairon-Demaret, Muriel
- 8. The Origin, Morphology, and Ecophysiology of Early Embryophytes: Neontological and Paleontological Perspectives / Graham, Linda E. / Gray, Jane / Graham, Linda E. / Gray, Jane
- 9. Biological Roles for Phenolic Compounds in the Evolution of Early Land Plants / Cooper-Driver, Gillian A.
- 10. The Effect of the Rise of Land Plants on Atmospheric CO2 During the Paleozoic / Berner, Robert A.
- 11. Early Terrestrial Plant Environments: An Example from the Emsian of Gaspé, Canada / Hotton, C. L. / Hueber, F. M. / Griffing, D. H. / Bridge, J. S.
- 12. Effects of the Middle to Late Devonian Spread of Vascular Land Plants on Weathering Regimes, Marine Biotas, and Global Climate / Algeo, Thomas J. / Scheckler, Stephen E. / Maynard, J. Barry
- 13. Diversification of Siluro-Devonian Plant Traces in Paleosols and Influence on Estimates of Paleoatmospheric CO2 Levels / Driese, Steven G. / Mora, Claudia I.
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Based on a symposium held during the Fifth International Organization of Paleobotany Conference in 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-289) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231504966
- 0231504969
- OCLC:
- 818109291
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