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Common Fossil Plants
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Origin of Land Plants A critical, synthetic and comprehensive account offering discussion of early environments, the history of thought on land plant origins, various approaches used to study early plant evolution and the characteristics of green algae. Includes new ideas regarding evolution, comparative studies of fossil plants and carbon availability. Features abundant illustrations and an extensive bibliography. |
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Fossil Plants and Spores: Modern Techniques |
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Paleobotany: Plants of the Past, Their Evolution, Paleonenvironment and Application in Exploration of Fossil Fuels |
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Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and
Environmental Perspectives What do we 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 paleobotony with physical, chemical, and geological data. Stretching from the Ordovician to the Upper Devonian (500-360 million years ago), the book covers the period of major global change as a result of diversification of plants and their impact on the environment. The essays include the interplay of plants and their environments and other coeval organisms (animals, fungi) and suggest further avenues of investigation. |
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Plant Life of the Quaternary Cold Stages:
Evidence from the British Isles This book brings together for the first time the published information on the Quaternary cold stage flora of over 80 sites in Britain and Ireland to present a factual cold stage flora from the fossil record. The data provides a basis for an interpretation of the flora, vegetation and environments of some of the most extraordinary periods in the earth?s most recent history, now only seen in the imperfect mirror of today?s Arctic. This important study aims to reveal the nature of an environment, relatively stable, but totally different to that of today. As such it will be significant not only to those interested in the Quaternary, but also to a wider audience of those studying the present flora, fauna and environment, including climate and climatic change. Includes a CD-ROM with a database of the cold stage flora in searchable format. |
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Plant Fossils: The History of Land
Vegetation (Fossils Illustrated) Relating the history of land vegetation, this volume provides an account of how plants first "invaded" the land 400 or more million years ago, as tiny leafless stems which grew upright for only a few centimetres and were restricted to low-lying, waterlogged habitats, from which the whole of earth's flora has evolved. Each of the major groups of plants is described in general order of appearance in the fossil record, from the first giant clubmosses, horsetails and ferns, which contributed so much to the forests, through the seed plants, to the angiosperms, the flowering plants which dominate the landscapes of today. |