Plants invade the land
Subtitle: evolutionary and environmental perspectives
By: editors, Patricia G. Gensel, Dianne Edwards
Contributors: Gensel, Patricia G., 1944-; Edwards, D.; International Organization of Paleobotany Conference (6th : 1996)
Series: Critical moments and perspectives in earth history and paleobiology series; Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history series
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Paleobotany; Plants -- Evolution
Notes: Based on a symposium held during the Fifth International Organization of Paleobotany Conference in 1996

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-289) and index
Table of contents: title: Embryophites on land / Dianne Edwards and Charles Wellman; title: Rustling in the undergrowth / William A. Shear and Paul A. Selden; title: New data on Nothia apylla Lyon 1964 ex el-Saadawy et Lacey 1979, a poorly known plant from the lower Devonian Rhine Chert / Hans Kerp, Hagen Hass, and Volker Mosbrugger; title: Morphology of above-and below-ground structures in early Devonian (Pragian-Emsian) plants / Patricia L. Gensel, Michele E. Kotyk, and James F. Basinger; title: The pongchong floral assemblages of southeastern Yunnan. China: diversity and disparity in early Devonian plant assemblages / Hao Shou-Gang and Patricia G. Gensel; title: The middle Devonian flora revisited / Christopher M. Berry and Muriel Fairon-Demaret; title: The origin, morphology, and ecophysiology of early empbryophytes: neontological and paleontological perspectives / Linda E. Graham and Jane Gray; title: Biological roles for phenolic compounds in the evolution of early land plants / Gillian A. Cooper-Driver; title: The effect of the rise of land plants on atmospheric COb2s during the Paleozoic / Robert A. Berner; title: Early terrestrial plant environments: an example from the Emsian of Gaspé, Canada / C.L. Hotton ... [et al.]; title: 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; title: Diversification of Siluro-Devonian plant traces in Paleosols and influence on estimates paleoatmospheric COb2s levels / Steven G. Driese and Claudia I. Mora