… lineages of early vascular plants during their initial major … CO 2 levels generated by plant
and microbial respiration in … ago, with significant effects on shoot evolution. Subsequent …

… in oxygenic photosynthetic plants, algae, and Cyanobacteria. At other times in Earth history,
… Here, we review the evolutionary history of carbon fixation pathways, their contributions to …

… In comparison with ephemeral plants of frequently disturbed productive habitats (ruderals),
species … According to their evolutionary history, families of flowering plants appear to differ …

… and yields of the most productive C 4 species are 40-… plant family to mark the 50th anniversary
of its discovery. This portrait consists of a listing of all life forms (Table 2) and evolutionary …

… The sizes of the circles represent the relative magnitude of plant biomass and/or productivity
… these disturbances, standing plant biomass or productivity within the habitat is suppressed …

… the biosphere expanded to a new level of productivity, enhancing the capacity and species
… with innovations in flowering plant biology and evolutionary ecology, including their flowers …

… on one or two "obvious" reproductive traits to evaluate how much reproductive fitness … plant
fossil record. Here the concern is not to rewrite evolutionary history but to discover why plants …

… the point of view which maintains that all questions concerning the evolutionary history of
organisms, in the absence of a significant fossil record, are pointless guessing games. The …

… Plants, but not charophyceans, possess a life history … plan evolution in plants has involved
fundamental changes in the forms of both gametophyte and sporophyte and the evolutionary …

… evolving plant lineages, which implies that both the contingencies of evolutionary history and
… led to a common set of rules that constrain the partitioning of nutrients among plant organs. …