Plants Invade the Land - Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives

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.

List of contents

Introduction
Embryophytes on Land: The Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) Record
Rustling in the Undergrowth: Animals in Early Terrestrial Ecosystems
New Data on Nothia aphylla Lyon 1964 ex El-Saadawy et Lacey 1979, a Poorly Known Plant from the Lower Devonian Rynie Chert
Morphology of Above- and Below-Ground Sturctures in Early Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) Plants
The Posongchong Floral Assemblages of Southeastern Yunnan, China--Diversity and Disparity in Early Devonian Plant Assemblages
The Middle Devonian Flora Revisited
The Origin, Morphology, and Ecophysiology of Early Embryophytes: Neontological and Paleontological Perspectives
Biological Roles for Phenolic Compounds in the Evolution of Early Land Plants
The Effect of the Rise of Land Plants on Atmospheric CO2 During the Paleozoic
Early Terrestrial Plant Environments: An Example from the Emsian of Gaspe, Canada
Effects of the Middle to Late Devonian Spread of Vascular Land Plants on Weathering Regimes, Marine Biotas, and Global Climate
Diversification of Siluro-Devonian Plant Traces in Paleosols and Influence on Estimates of Paleoatmospheric CO2 Levels

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Edited by Patricia G. Gensel and Dianne Edwards

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.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Gensel, Patricia G. Edwards Gensel
• Assisted by: Dianne Edwards (Editor), Patricia Gensel (Editor), Patricia G. Gensel (Editor), Gensel Patricia G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2001
• EAN: 9780231111614
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11161-4
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Critical Moments and Perspecti; The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology; Critical Moments and Perspecti
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Palaeontology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Paleontology, Archaeology, Science / Environmental Science, Palaeontology, Botany and plant sciences