Critical moments and perspectives in earth history and paleobiology series
Based on a symposium held during the Fifth International Organization of Paleobotany Conference in 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-289) and index.
Embryophites on land / Dianne Edwards and Charles Wellman -- Rustling in the undergrowth / William A. Shear and Paul A. Selden -- New data on Nothia apylla Lyon 1964 ex el-Saadawy et Lacey 1979, a poorly known plant from the lower Devonian Rhine Chert / Hans Kerp, Hagen Hass, and Volker Mosbrugger -- Morphology of above-and below-ground structures in early Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) plants / Patricia L. Gensel, Michele E. Kotyk, and James F. Basinger -- The pongchong floral assemblages of southeastern Yunnan. China: diversity and disparity in early Devonian plant assemblages / Hao Shou-Gang and Patricia G. Gensel -- The middle Devonian flora revisited / Christopher M. Berry and Muriel Fairon-Demaret -- The origin, morphology, and ecophysiology of early empbryophytes: neontological and paleontological perspectives / Linda E. Graham and Jane Gray -- Biological roles for phenolic compounds in the evolution of early land plants / Gillian A. Cooper-Driver -- The effect of the rise of land plants on atmospheric CO₂ during the Paleozoic / Robert A. Berner -- Early terrestrial plant environments: an example from the Emsian of Gaspé, Canada / C.L. Hotton [and others] -- Effects of the middle to late Devonian spread of vascular land plants on weathering regimes, marine biotas, and global climate / Thomas J. Algeo, Stephen E. Scheckler, and J. Barry Maynard -- Diversification of Siluro-Devonian plant traces in Paleosols and influence on estimates paleoatmospheric CO₂ levels / Steven G. Driese and Claudia I. Mora.
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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.
JSTOR
22573/ctt2724pj
Plants invade the land.
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Paleobotany.
Plants-- Evolution.
Ausbreitung.
Entwicklung.
Evolutionsbiologie.
Fossile Pflanzen.
Paläobotanik.
Paläozoikum.
Paleobotany.
Plants-- Evolution.
SCIENCE-- Paleontology.
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SCI054000
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Edwards, D., (Dianne)
Gensel, Patricia G.,1944-
International Organization of Paleobotany., Conference(5th :, 1996)