Plants Invade the Land

Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-231-11161-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 512 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gensel, Patricia

Edwards, Dianne

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors1. Introduction, by Patricia G. Gensel2. Embryophytes on Land: The Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) Record, by Dianne Edwards and Charles Wellman3. Rustling in the Undergrowth: Animals in Early Terrestrial Ecosystems, by William A. Shear and Paul A. Selden4. New Data on Nothia aphylla Lyon 1964 ex El-Saadawy et Lacey 1979, a Poorly Known Plant from the Lower Devonian Rynie Chert, by Hans Kerp, Hagen Hass, and Volker Mosbrugger5. Morphology of Above- and Below-Ground Sturctures in Early Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) Plants, by Patricia G. Gensel, Michele E. Kotyk, and James F. Basinger6. The Posongchong Floral Assemblages of Southeastern Yunnan, China--Diversity and Disparity in Early Devonian Plant Assemblages, by Hao Shou-Gang and Patricia G. Gensel7. The Middle Devonian Flora Revisited, by Christopher M. Berry and Muriel Fairon-Demaret8. The Origin, Morphology, and Ecophysiology of Early Embryophytes: Neontological and Paleontological Perspectives, by Linda E. Graham and Jane Gray9. Biological Roles for Phenolic Compounds in the Evolution of Early Land Plants, by Gillian A. Cooper-Driver10. The Effect of the Rise of Land Plants on Atmospheric CO2 During the Paleozoic, by Robert A. Berner11. Early Terrestrial Plant Environments: An Example from the Emsian of Gaspe, Canada, by C. L. Hotton, F. M. Hueber, D. H. Griffing, and J. S. Bridge12. Effects of the Middle to Late Devonian Spread of Vascular Land Plants on Weathering Regimes, Marine Biotas, and Global Climate, by Thomas J. Algeo, Stephen E. Scheckler, and J. Barry Maynard13. Diversification of Siluro-Devonian Plant Traces in Paleosols and Influence on Estimates of Paleoatmospheric CO2 Levels, by Steven G. Driese and Claudia I. MoraReferencesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Gensel is a professor of biology at the University of North Carolina. She is the co-author of Plant Life in the Devonian.Dianne Edwards holds a chair in paleobotany in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Wales. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society and has been President of the Paleontological Association and editor of the Botanical Journal of the Linnaen Society.