Back to the Beginnings: The Silurian - Devonian as a Time of Major Innovation in Plants and Their Communities

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_15" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_15</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_15" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_15</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Back to the Beginnings: The Silurian - Devonian as a Time of Major Innovation in Plants and Their Communities

Original language description

Massive changes in terrestrial paleoecology occurred during the Devonian. This period saw the evolution of both seed plants (e.g., Elkinsia and Moresnetia), fully laminateASTERISK OPERATOR leaves and wood. Wood evolved independently in different plant groups during the Middle Devonian (arborescent lycopsids, cladoxylopsids, and progymnosperms) resulting in the evolution of the tree habit at this time (Givetian, Gilboa forest, USA) and of various growth and architectural configurations. By the end of the Devonian, 30-m-tall trees were distributed worldwide. Prior to the appearance of a tree canopy habit, other early plant groups (trimerophytes) that colonized the planet&apos;s landscapes were of smaller stature attaining heights of a few meters with a dense, three-dimensional array of thin lateral branches functioning as &quot;leaves&quot;. Laminate leaves, as we know them today, appeared, independently, at different times in the Devonian. In the Lower Devonian, trees were not present and plants were shrubby (e.g., Aglaophyton major), preserved in a fossilized community at the Rhynie chert locality in Scotland and other places. Many of these stemgroup plants (i.e., preceding the differentiation of most modern lineages) were leafless and rootless, anchored to the substrate by rhizoids. The earliest land plant macrofossil remains date back to the Silurian, with the early Silurian Cooksonia barrandei from central Europe representing the earliest vascular plant known, to date. This plant had minute bifurcating aerial axes terminating in expanded sporangia. Dispersed microfossils (spores and phytodebris) in continental and coastal marine sediments provide the earliest evidence for land plants (= Embryophytes), which are first reported from the Early Ordovician.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10506 - Paleontology

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Nature through Time. Virtual field trips through the Nature of the past

ISBN

978-3-030-35057-4

Number of pages of the result

32

Pages from-to

367-398

Number of pages of the book

462

Publisher name

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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