Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives

Edited by Patricia G. Gensel and Dianne Edwards

Paper, 512 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11161-4
$44.50 / £26.00

February, 2001
Cloth, 512 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-11160-7
$89.50 / £52.50

Introduction

Embryophytes on Land: The Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) Record

Rustling in the Undergrowth: Animals in Early Terrestrial Ecosystems

New Data on Nothia aphylla Lyon 1964 ex El-Saadawy et Lacey 1979, a Poorly Known Plant from the Lower Devonian Rynie Chert

Morphology of Above- and Below-Ground Sturctures in Early Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) Plants

The Posongchong Floral Assemblages of Southeastern Yunnan, China--Diversity and Disparity in Early Devonian Plant Assemblages

The Middle Devonian Flora Revisited

The Origin, Morphology, and Ecophysiology of Early Embryophytes: Neontological and Paleontological Perspectives

Biological Roles for Phenolic Compounds in the Evolution of Early Land Plants

The Effect of the Rise of Land Plants on Atmospheric CO2 During the Paleozoic

Early Terrestrial Plant Environments: An Example from the Emsian of Gaspe, Canada

Effects of the Middle to Late Devonian Spread of Vascular Land Plants on Weathering Regimes, Marine Biotas, and Global Climate

Diversification of Siluro-Devonian Plant Traces in Paleosols and Influence on Estimates of Paleoatmospheric CO2 Levels

Related Subjects

• Paleontology

Series

• Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology

About the Author

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.

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