Premise of the Study Conifers are an important living seed plant lineage with an extensive
fossil record spanning more than 300 million years. The group therefore provides an …

Plants have utterly transformed the planet, but testing hypotheses of causality requires a
reliable time‐scale for plant evolution. While clock methods have been extensively …

Premise of research. The Late Paleozoic Ice Age was the last extensive pre-Pleistocene ice
age. It includes many climate changes of different intensities, permitting examination of …

Fleshy structures associated with the ovule/seed arose independently several times during
gymnosperm evolution. Fleshy structures are linked to ovule/seed protection and dispersal …

We evaluate the influences of elevation and climate on the spatio-temporal distribution of
wetland and dryland biomes during the Pennsylvanian and early Permian in tropical …

A compelling account of the extraordinary relatives of ordinary garden conifers. Leading
expert Aljos Farjon provides a compelling narrative that observes conifers from the …

The latitudinal biodiversity gradient today has deep roots in the evolutionary history of
Earth's biota over geologic time. In the marine realm, earliest fossil occurrences at low …

Current phylogenetic evidence shows that fire began shaping the evolution of land plants
125 Ma, although the fossil charcoal record indicates that fire has a much longer history (> …

The Podocarpaceae are a morphologically diverse conifer family that have a cryptic fossil
record reported since the Permian. We reviewed the fossil record of Podocarpaceae, tested …

Pollen malformations have been proposed as a paleoenvironmental stress proxy. However,
the frequency and variability of pollen malformations under near-optimal conditions and …