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The evolution of plants /
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2002.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Evolutionary record and methods of reconstruction. Geological timescale
- Methods of reconstruction
- Dating methods
- Earliest forms of plant life. Earliest environments
- Accumulation of organic material and formation of the first cell
- First prokaryotes : the geological evidence
- Evolution of the eukaryotes
- Possible triggering mechanisms of eukaryotic evolution
- Colonization of land. Environmental changes during the Cambrian and Ordovician (543 to 443 Ma)
- Fossil evidence for plant terrestrialization
- Examples of earliest land plants in the fossil record
- Evolutionary trends : green algae to land plants?
- Evolutionary trends : non-vascular to vascular plants?
- Biogeographical distribution of the earliest land plants in the late Silurian and early Devonian ([approximately] 430 to 390 Ma)
- First forests. Environmental changes spanning the mid-Devonian to late Carboniferous ([approximately] 395 to 290 Ma)
- Major changes and innovations in the plant fossil record during the mid Devonian to late Carboniferous ([approximately] 395 to 290 Ma)
- Evidence of further plant adaptations to land dwelling between early Devonian and late Carboniferous (395 to 290 Ma)
- Further adaptations to the plant life cycle
- Earliest trees in the fossil record
- Evolutionary trends : earliest vascular plants to trees
- Biogeographical distribution of global vegetation during the early and late Carboniferous (354 to 290 Ma)
- Major emergence of the seed plants. Environmental changes during the Permian (290 to 248 Ma)
- Evolution of cycads, bennettites, ginkgos, and glossopterids
- Biogeographical distribution of global vegetation during the middle Permian (267 to 264 Ma)
- Major radiation of the conifers
- Biogeographical distribution of global vegetation during the early Jurassic (260 to 180 Ma)
- Flowering plant origins. Evidence for the first angiosperms
- Nature and distribution of the earliest angiosperms
- Why so late?
- Evolutionary trends : gymnosperms to angiosperms?
- Biogeographical distribution of global vegetation during the late Cretaceous ([approximately] 84 to 65 Ma)
- Past 65 million years. Environmental changes over the past 65 million years (Tertiary and Quarternary)
- Biogeographical distribution of global vegetation between [approximately] 60 and 50 Ma (late Palaeocene to early Eocene)
- Evolution of grasses
- Decline of the forests and spread of aridland vegetation
- Biogeographical distribution of global vegetation between 34 to 25 Ma (Oligocene)
- Evolution of plants using [C-4] and CAM photosynthetic pathways
- Biogeographical distribution of global vegetation by 11.2-5.3 Ma (late Miocene)
- Mass extinctions and persistent populations. Definition of mass extinction
- Evidence in the geological record : plants versus animals
- Why no mass extinction in the plant fossil record?
- Evidence for persistence in the plant fossil record
- Adaptations of plants for persistence
- Ancient DNA and the biomolecular record. Potential of ancient DNA in evolutionary research
- Deposition, preservation, and extraction of DNA
- Examples of current research
- Limitations of the technique
- In defence of ancient DNA
- Other fossil plant biomolecules, biomacromolecules, and chemical constituents
- Stable carbon isotopes ([change in carbon-13]) and the fossil plant record
- Evolutionary theories and the plant fossil record. Evolutionary theories
- Patterns of evolutionary change in the plant fossil record
- Mechanisms driving evolutionary change
- Why should plant evolution be related to periods of increased continental plate movement?