Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives
ISBN: 9780231504966
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Paleobotany; Plants -- Evolution;

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.

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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