Plants Invade the Land : : Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives / / ed. by Dianne Edwards, Patricia Gensel.
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.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2001 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- 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 Spread of 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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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231504966 9783110442472 |
DOI: | 10.7312/gens11160 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Dianne Edwards, Patricia Gensel. |