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1 online resource |
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Front Cover; Transformative Paleobotany; Companion Website; Transformative Paleobotany: Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; About the Editors; Biography; Foreword; Acknowledgments; I -- Early Land Plants: Innovations and Adaptations; 1 -- The Evolutionary Origin of the Plant Spore in Relation to the Antithetic Origin of the Plant Sporophyte; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE ANTITHETIC THEORY AS A SCAFFOLD FOR INTERPRETING THE FOSSIL RECORD OF THE ALGAL-PLANT TRANSITION; 3. EARLY CRYPTOSPORE MORPHOLOGY |
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3.1 Sporogenesis and Cryptospore Morphology 3.2 Early Cryptospore Topology; 3.3 Spore Wall Topology in Relation to the Sporopollenin Transfer Hypothesis; 3.4 The Evolutionary Developmental and Morphological Significance of Laminated Spore Wall Structure; 3.4.1 The Primitive Nature of Laminated Sporoderm; 3.4.2 Variation in Cambrian Spore Wall Lamination; 4. CRYPTOSPORES AND THE ORIGIN OF MEIOSIS IN PLANTS; 5. THE STRATIGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE CRYPTOSPORES AS A RECORD OF SPOROPHYTE EVOLUTION; 6. INTERPRETING ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN PHYTODEBRIS AS A RECORD OF SPOROPHYTE EVOLUTION; 7. CONCLUSION |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES; 2 -- Early Devonian Woody Plants and Implications for the Early Evolution of Vascular Cambia; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BACKGROUND; 2.1 Previously Described Occurrences of Secondary Xylem in Fossil Plants; 3. PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED EARLY DEVONIAN TAXA; 3.1 Armoricaphyton chateaupannense (Strullu-Derrien et al., 2014); 3.2 Unnamed New Brunswick Plant A: Preliminary Data; 3.3 Franhueberia gerriennii, Emsian, GaspE; 3.4 Additional Occurrences of Emsian Plants With Secondary Xylem: Preliminary Data; 3.4.1 New Brunswick: Unidentified Axis B |
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3.4.2 North Shore, Gaspe, Quebec: A Puzzle to Be Solved 3.4.2.1 Extra-xylary tissues; 4. COMPARISONS; 5. DISCUSSION; 5.1 Implications; 5.1.1 Aligned Cells Considered Primary in Origin-Aligned Metaxylem Versus Vascular Cambium-Derived Secondary Tissues; 5.1.2 Unifacial cambia; 5.2 Evolution of Cambium; 5.3 Information From Developmental Studies; 5.4 Psilophyton- One Taxon or Several?; 5.5 Size is Decoupled From Secondary Tissues in These Early Plants; 6. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; 3 -- Using Architecture Modeling of the Devonian Tree Pseudosporochnus to Compute Its Biomass |
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1. INTRODUCTION 2. MATERIAL; 3. MODELING PSEUDOSPOROCHNUS WITH AMAPSIM; 3.1 AmapSim Software; 3.2 Pseudosporochnus Architectural Unit; 3.3 Geometrical Parameters of Pseudosporochnus; 3.3.1 Internode length and diameter (Fig. 3.2); 3.3.2 Number of internodes in each axis category; 3.3.3 LBSs; 3.3.4 Relative growth speed of the trunk and branches; 3.4 Pseudosporochnus Physiological Age Indexing; 4. COMPUTING BIOMASS; 4.1 Biomass of a Pseudosporochnus Tree; 4.2 Biomass of a Pseudosporochnus Stand; 5. RESULTS; 5.1 Simulating the Growth of Pseudosporochnus; 5.2 Carbon Allocation in Pseudosporochnus |
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'Transformative Paleobotany: Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor' features the broadest possible spectrum of topics analyzing the structure, function and evolution of fossil plants, microorganisms, and organismal interactions in fossil ecosystems (e.g., plant paleobiography, paleoecology, early evolution of land plants, fossil fungi and microbial interactions with plants, systematics and phylogeny of major plant and fungal lineages, biostratigraphy, evolution of organismal interactions, ultrastructure, Antarctic paleobotany). The book includes the latest research from top scientists who have made transformative contributions. Sections are richly illustrated, well concepted, and characterize and summarize the most up-to-date understanding of this respective and important field of study. -- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 04, 2018) |
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Paleobotany.
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SCIENCE -- Paleontology.
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Paleobotany
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Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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Krings, Michael, editor
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Harper, Carla J., editor.
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Cúneo, N. R. (N. Ruben), editor.
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Rothwell, Gar W., editor
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Taylor, Thomas N., honouree.
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| ISBN |
9780128130131 |
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012813013X |
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