Plants Invade the Land : Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives
Patricia G. Gensel
Bok Engelsk 2001 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : Columbia University Press, , 2001.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (843 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover ; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; List of 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. - 12. Effects of the Middle to Late Devonian Spread of Vascular Land Plants on Weathering Regimes, Marine Biotas, and Global Climate13. Diversification of Siluro-Devonian Plant Traces in Paleosols and Influence on Estimates of Paleoatmospheric CO2 Levels; References; Index. - 6. The Posongchong Floral Assemblages of Southeastern Yunnan, China-Diversity and Disparity in Early Devonian Plant Assemblages7. 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; Appendix: Descriptions of Plant Megafossils. - <div>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.</div>
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| ISBN | 0231111606. - 0231111614
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