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The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arens, Nan Crystal.
- Series:
- Princeton Field Guides
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- A dazzlingly illustrated guide to the plant life of the dinosaur age, from intricate ferns to the most majestic megaflora The Mesozoic was dominated by a spectacular array of flora, from ferns, conifers, and cycads to ginkgos and flowering plants, as well as some enigmatic species with no modern-day descendants.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- History of Discovery and Research
- What Plants Lived in the Mesozoic?
- Age Dating Mesozoic Plants
- Geography and Climate
- Extinction and Recovery
- After the Mesozoic
- Biology
- Making Food: Photosynthesis
- Moving Fluids without a Heart: Water and Sap
- Life Cycle and Reproduction
- Sensing and Responding to the Environment
- Living Together in Communities
- Growth
- Modular Growth in Plants
- Building the Variety of Plant Form with Nodes and Internodes
- Many Ways to Build a Tree
- Evolving in Response to the Environment
- How Evolution Happens
- Environmental Forces Shaping Plants
- Mesozoic Climate Shapes Plants
- Earth's Atmosphere and Climate Equilibria
- Estimating Carbon Dioxide Levels in the Mesozoic Atmosphere
- Carbon Dioxide Levels Translate to Climate
- Complex Controls on Greenhouse Gases
- Oxygen, Temperature, and Wildfire
- Climate, Wildfire, and the Flowering Plant Revolution
- A Guided Walk through the Mesozoic Forests
- Triassic and Jurassic
- Early Cretaceous
- Late Cretaceous
- If Flowering Plants Had Not Become Dominant . . .
- Flowering Plants as Resources for Animals
- Mesozoic Plant Conservation
- Taxus: A Treatment for Cancer
- Cycads: Ancient Cultural Connection and Modern Exploitation
- Ginkgo: A Sacred Plant in Southeast Asia
- Ephedra: A Worldwide Medicine
- Kauri: A Race to Save Mesozoic Giants
- Where to Find Mesozoic Plants
- How Plants Become Fossils
- Triassic Plant Fossil Hot Spots
- Jurassic Plant Fossil Hot Spots
- Cretaceous Plant Fossil Hot Spots
- Using the Group and Species Descriptions
- Naming Fossil Plants
- Plant Parts, Fossil Taxa, and a "Whole-Plant Concept
- Understanding Evolutionary Relationships
- Information Provided with Each Entry
- Group and Species Descriptions.
- Plants that Reproduce with Spores
- Cycads
- Ginkgos and Relatives
- Conifers
- Enigmatic Seed Plants with Mesozoic Roots
- Flowering Plants
- Further Reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-27249-2
- OCLC:
- 1531325535
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