How deep is the conflict between molecular and fossil evidence on the age of angiosperms?

M Coiro, JA Doyle, J Hilton - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The timing of the origin of angiosperms is a hotly debated topic in plant evolution. Molecular
dating analyses that consistently retrieve pre‐Cretaceous ages for crown‐group …

Do bioinoculants affect resident microbial communities? A meta-analysis

C Cornell, V Kokkoris, A Richards, C Horst… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
There is a global industry built upon the production of “bioinoculants,” which include both
bacteria and fungi. The recent increase in bioinoculant uptake by land users coincides with …

A stronger role for long-term moisture change than for CO2 in determining tropical woody vegetation change

WD Gosling, CS Miller, TM Shanahan, PB Holden… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Anthropogenically elevated CO2 (eCO2) concentrations have been suggested to increase
woody cover within tropical ecosystems through fertilization. The effect of eCO2 is built into …

Past environmental changes affected lemur population dynamics prior to human impact in Madagascar

H Teixeira, V Montade, J Salmona, J Metzger… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Quaternary climatic changes have been invoked as important drivers of species
diversification worldwide. However, the impact of such changes on vegetation and animal …

[HTML][HTML] A chronologically reliable record of 17,000 years of biomass burning in the Lake Victoria area

Y Temoltzin-Loranca, E Gobet, B Vanniere… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fire regimes differ across tropical and subtropical biomes depending on multiple parameters
whose interactions and levels of importance are poorly understood, particularly at …

[HTML][HTML] Quaternary forest associations in lowland tropical West Africa

CS Miller, WD Gosling - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Terrestrial fossil pollen records are frequently used to reveal the response of vegetation to
changes in both regional and global climate. Here we present a fossil pollen record from …

Atlas of pollen and spores and their parent taxa of Mt Kilimanjaro and tropical East Africa

L Schueler, A Hemp - Quaternary International, 2016 - Elsevier
The accurate and consistent identification of fossil pollen is essential to allow robust
inferences to be drawn with regard to past vegetation and climate change. Identifications are …

Impact of Different Storage Regimes on the Levels of Physicochemical Characteristics, Especially Free Acidity in Talh (Acacia gerrardii Benth.) Honey

HSA Raweh, AY Badjah-Hadj-Ahmed, J Iqbal… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study investigates how storage conditions (temperature and duration) may affect the
physicochemical parameters, especially free acidity (FA), of Talh honey originating from …

[HTML][HTML] The Eco-Plant model and its implication on Mesozoic dispersed sporomorphs for Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, and Gymnosperms

J Zhang, OK Lenz, P Wang, J Hornung - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ecogroup classification based on the growth-form of plants (Eco-Plant model) is widely
used for extant, Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic paleoenvironmental reconstructions …

Late Maastrichtian vegetation and palaeoclimate: palynological inferences from the Deccan Volcanic Province of India

S Mishra, SP Singh, M Arif, AK Singh, G Srivastava… - Cretaceous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Our understanding of the low latitude terrestrial climate of the late Maastrichtian is far from
satisfactory. We have attempted to reconstruct the late Maastrichtian vegetation and climate …