Plants Invade the Land : : Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives / / ed. by Dianne Edwards, Patricia Gensel.

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• MitwirkendeR: Algeo, Thomas J.,; Basinger, James F.,; Berner, Robert A.,; Berry, Christopher M.,; Bridge, J. S.,; Cooper-Driver, Gillian A.,; Driese, Steven G.,; Edwards, Dianne,; Fairon-Demaret, Muriel,; Gensel, Patricia G.,; Graham, Linda E.,; Gray, Jane,; Griffing, D. H.,; Hass, Hagen,; Hotton, C. L.,; Hueber, F. M.,; Kerp, Hans,; Kotyk, Michele E.,; Maynard, J. Barry,; Mora, Claudia I.,; Mosbrugger, Volker,; Scheckler, Stephen E.,; Selden, Paul A.,; Shear, William A.,; Shou-Gang, Hao,; Wellman, Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: Edwards, Dianne,; Gensel, Patricia,
• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

• 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