This book focuses on our present day understanding of the fossil record of land plants and other organisms. Presents a detailed overview of the diversificaion of the plant kingdom... Very interesting book for students and researchers. (Southeastern Naturalist)
This is an excellent volume that should be purchased not only by all geological libraries but also by anyone with an interest in the evolution of the biosphere-atmosphere system. (Andrew C. Scott Geological Magazine)
This book contributes to our knowledge of the exciting story of the origin of plants on land, from an evolutionary and environmental perspective.... recommended for advanced researchers in paleobotany and paleoecology of the age of plants invading land. (Stanislav Mihulka Folia Geobotanica)
Author(s): Patricia G. Gensel; Dianne Edwards
Series: The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 304
Tags: Paleobotany Plants-Evolution
1 Introduction
Patricia G. Gensel
2 Embryophytes on Land: The Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) Record
Dianne Edwards and Charles Wellman
3 Rustling in the Undergrowth: Animals in Early Terrestrial Ecosystems
William A. Shear and Paul A. Selden
4 New Data on Nothia aphylla Lyon 1964 ex El-Saadawy et Lacey 1979, a Poorly Known Plant from the Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert
Hans Kerp, Hagen Hass, and Volker Mosbrugger
5 Morphology of Above- and Below-Ground Structures in Early Devonian (Pragian–Emsian) Plants
Patricia G. Gensel, Michele E. Kotyk, and James F. Basinger
6 The Posongchong Floral Assemblages of Southeastern Yunnan, China—Diversity and Disparity in Early Devonian Plant Assemblages
Hao Shou-Gang and Patricia G. Gensel
7 The Middle Devonian Flora Revisited
Christopher M. Berry and Muriel Fairon-Demaret
8 The Origin, Morphology, and Ecophysiology of Early Embryophytes: Neontological and Paleontological Perspectives
Linda E. Graham and Jane Gray
9 Biological Roles for Phenolic Compounds in the Evolution of Early Land Plants
Gillian A. Cooper-Driver
10 The Effect of the Rise of Land Plants on Atmospheric CO2 During the Paleozoic
Robert A. Berner
11 Early Terrestrial Plant Environments: An Example from the Emsian of Gaspé, Canada
C. L. Hotton, F. M. Hueber, D. H. Griffing, and J. S. Bridge
12 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
13 Diversification of Siluro-Devonian Plant Traces in Paleosols and Influence on Estimates of Paleoatmospheric CO2 Levels
Steven G. Driese and Claudia I. Mora
