1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Embryophytes on Land: The Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) Record 3
6. 3 Rustling in the Undergrowth: Animals in Early Terrestrial Ecosystems 29
7. 4. New Data on Nothia aphylla Lyon 1964 ex El-Saadawy et Lacey 1979, a Poorly Known Plant from the Lower Devonian Rhynie Chert 52
8. 5. Morphology of Above- and Below-Ground Structures in Early Devonian (Pragian–Emsian) Plants 83
9. 6. The Posongchong Floral Assemblages of Southeastern Yunnan, China—Diversity and Disparity in Early Devonian Plant Assemblages 103
10. 7. The Middle Devonian Flora Revisited 120
11. 8. The Origin, Morphology, and Ecophysiology of Early Embryophytes: Neontological and Paleontological Perspectives 140
12. 9. Biological Roles for Phenolic Compounds in the Evolution of Early Land Plants 159
13. 10. The Effect of the Rise of Land Plants on Atmospheric CO₂ During the Paleozoic 173
14. 11. Early Terrestrial Plant Environments: An Example from the Emsian of Gaspé, Canada 179
15. 12. Effects of the Middle to Late Devonian Spread of Vascular Land Plants on Weathering Regimes, Marine Biotas, and Global Climate 213
16. 13. Diversification of Siluro-Devonian Plant Traces in Paleosols and Influence on Estimates of Paleoatmospheric CO₂ Levels 237
17. References 255
18. Index 291