Roots, as organs distinguishable developmentally and anatomically from shoots (other than
by occurrence of stomata and sporangia on above‐ground organs), evolved in the …

Recent development of fluvial facies models has been due to improved description of
natural river and floodplain processes and deposits using:(1) ground-penetrating radar …

Rivers and Floodplains is concerned with the origin, geometry, water flow, sediment
transport, erosion and deposition associated with modern alluvial rivers and floodplains …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

The Paleozoic emergence of terrestrial plants has been linked to a stepwise increase in
Earth's O 2 levels and a cooling of Earth's climate by drawdown of atmospheric CO 2 …

The fossil record of wetlands documents unique and long-persistent floras and faunas with
wetland habitats spawning or at least preserving novel evolutionary characteristics and, at …

Considerable progress has been made in documenting evidence of very early plants
starting in the basal Ordovician employing dispersed spore, phytodebris, and mesofossil …

The early fossil record of terrestrial arthropod herbivory consists of two pulses. The first pulse
was concentrated during the latest Silurian to Early Devonian (417 to 403 Ma), and consists …

A new Devonian oxygen isotope record based on 180 measurements of conodont apatite is
reported from South China. The comparison with published Devonian δ 18 O apatite data …

Biospheric relationships between production and consumption of biomass have been
resilient to changes in the Earth system over billions of years. This relationship has …