The Middle to Late Devonian was an interval of major changes in both the terrestrial and
marine biospheres. In the terrestrial realm, evolutionary innovations among early vascular …

Evolutionary developments among vascular land plants may have been the ultimate cause
for oceanic anoxic events, biotic crises, global climate change, and geochemical and …

Evolution of terrestrial plants, the first vascular plants, the first trees, and then whole forest
ecosystems had far reaching consequences for Earth system dynamics. These innovations …

INTRODUCTION The Devonian was characterized by major changes in both the terrestrial
and marine biospheres. Terrestrial ecosystems were marked by large increases in biomass …

The Devonian Period was characterized by major changes in both the terrestrial biosphere,
eg the evolution of trees and seed plants and the appearance of multi–storied forests, and in …

Major Phanerozoic crises, resulting in extinction of marine organisms, are suggested to be
the culmination of a gradual process of selection caused by periods of decreasing marine …

Abstract The Late Devonian was an epoch of dramatic evolutionary and environmental
changes linked primarily with the Frasnian-Famennian (FF) mass extinction. Current data …

Land plants invaded continents during the Mid-Paleozoic. Their spreading and
diversification have been compared to the Cambrian explosion in terms of intensity and …

The Late Devonian extinction event was not geologically “instantaneous,” in that extinctions
during the epoch are not concentrated into a single sharp pulse at the end of the Frasnian …

This chapter is primarily concerned with the documentation of the record of land plants from
their earliest occurrences in the Ordovician to the end of the Lochkovian in the Lower …