Could land-based early photosynthesizing ecosystems have bioengineered the planet in mid-Palaeozoic times?

Chemostratigraphy of an Ordovician–Silurian carbonate platform: δ13C records below glacioeustatic exposure surfaces

(2015) David S. Jones et al.   GEOLOGY

CO 2 concentrating mechanisms and environmental change

(2014) J.A. Raven et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

A Neoproterozoic Transition in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle

(2014) Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Estimating impacts of lichens and bryophytes on global biogeochemical cycles

(2014) Philipp Porada et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Exploring functional contexts of symbiotic sustain within lichen-associated bacteria by comparative omics

(2014) Martin Grube et al.   ISME Journal

Affinities and architecture of Devonian trunks of Prototaxites loganii

(2014) G.J. Retallack et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Fungal associations of basal vascular plants: reopening a closed book?

(2014) William R. Rimington et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras

(2014) Dianne Edwards et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

First evidence of mutualism between ancient plant lineages (Haplomitriopsida liverworts) and Mucoromycotina fungi and its response to simulated Palaeozoic changes in atmospheric CO2

(2014) Katie J. Field et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Widespread desert affiliation of trebouxiophycean algae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) including discovery of three new desert genera

(2014) Karolina Fučíková et al.   PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Conflicting Phylogenies for Early Land Plants are Caused by Composition Biases among Synonymous Substitutions

(2014) Cymon J. Cox et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Fungal symbioses in bryophytes: New insights in the Twenty First Century

(2014) S. Pressel et al.   Phytotaxa

Contributions to the diversity in cryptogamic covers in the mid-Palaeozoic:Nematothallusrevisited

(2013) Dianne Edwards et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The role of palaeogeography in the Phanerozoic history of atmospheric CO2 and climate

(2013) Yves Goddéris et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Bacterial epibionts and endolichenic actinobacteria and fungi in the Lower Devonian lichen Chlorolichenomycites salopensis

(2013) Rosmarie Honegger et al.   Fungal Biology

Global moss diversity: spatial and taxonomic patterns of species richness

(2013) Jan Laurens Geffert et al.   JOURNAL OF BRYOLOGY

Iron acquisition and allocation in stramenopile algae

(2013) J. A. Raven   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Origins and diversity of eukaryotic CO2-concentrating mechanisms: lessons for the future

(2013) Moritz Meyer et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Precise timing of the Late Ordovician (Sandbian) super-eruptions and associated environmental, biological, and climatological events

(2013) B. Sell et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Long-period orbital climate forcing in the early Palaeozoic?

(2013) L. Cherns et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Dating the Diversification of the Major Lineages of Ascomycota (Fungi)

(2013) María Prieto et al.   PLoS One

Major transitions in the evolution of early land plants: a bryological perspective

(2012) Roberto Ligrone et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Evolution of trees and mycorrhizal fungi intensifies silicate mineral weathering

(2012) J. Quirk et al.   Biology Letters

Ordovician ash geochemistry and the establishment of land plants

(2012) John Parnell et al.   GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS

After the lava flow: The importance of external soil sources for plant colonization of recent lava flows in the central Oregon Cascades, USA

(2012) Natalia I. Deligne et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Petrogenesis of Early Paleozoic basalts and gabbros in the western Cuyania terrane: Constraints on the tectonic setting of the southwestern Gondwana margin (Sierra del Tigre, Andean Argentine Precordillera)

(2012) L. González-Menéndez et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Air density 2.7 billion years ago limited to less than twice modern levels by fossil raindrop imprints

(2012) Sanjoy M. Som et al.   NATURE

Ediacaran life on land

(2012) Gregory J. Retallack   NATURE

Hot, cracking rocks deep down

(2012) Neil Mitchell   Nature Geoscience

Unexpected uptake

(2012) Jayne Belnap   Nature Geoscience

First plants cooled the Ordovician

(2012) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Palaeozoic landscapes shaped by plant evolution

(2012) Martin R. Gibling et al.   Nature Geoscience

Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

The earliest records of internally stratified cyanobacterial and algal lichens from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland

(2012) Rosmarie Honegger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Systematic occurrences of malformed (teratological) acritarchs in the run-up of Early Palaeozoic δ13C isotope excursions

(2012) Axel Munnecke et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Beyond black shales: The sedimentary and stable isotope records of oceanic anoxic events in a dominantly oxic basin (Silurian; Appalachian Basin, USA)

(2012) Patrick I. McLaughlin et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Stratospheric ozone depletion due to nitrous oxide: influences of other gases

(2012) R. W. Portmann et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Algal evolution in relation to atmospheric CO2: carboxylases, carbon-concentrating mechanisms and carbon oxidation cycles

(2012) J. A. Raven et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hornwort pyrenoids, carbon-concentrating structures, evolved and were lost at least five times during the last 100 million years

(2012) J. C. Villarreal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contrasting arbuscular mycorrhizal responses of vascular and non-vascular plants to a simulated Palaeozoic CO2 decline

(2012) Katie J. Field et al.   Nature Communications

The dawn of symbiosis between plants and fungi

(2011) M. I. Bidartondo et al.   Biology Letters

Evidence for a fungal affinity for Nematasketum, a close ally of Prototaxites

(2011) DIANNE EDWARDS et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The climate change caused by the land plant invasion in the Devonian

(2011) Guillaume Le Hir et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Modeling the early Paleozoic long-term climatic trend

(2011) E. Nardin et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Tolerance of the widespread cyanobacterium Nostoc commune to extreme temperature variations (−269 to 105°C), pH and salt stress

(2011) Kaj Sand-Jensen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Seasonal photosynthetic gas exchange and water-use efficiency in a constitutive CAM plant, the giant saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea)

(2011) Dustin R. Bronson et al.   OECOLOGIA

Problematic megafossils in Cambrian palaeosols of South Australia

(2011) GREGORY J. RETALLACK   PALAEONTOLOGY

Abnormal forms of acritarchs (phytoplankton) in the upper Hirnantian (Upper Ordovician) of Anticosti Island, Canada

(2011) Aurélien Delabroye et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Alluvial facies evolution during the Palaeozoic greening of the continents: case studies, conceptual models and modern analogues

(2011) NEIL S. DAVIES et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

“Prototaxites was not a taphonomic artifact”

(2010) C. Kevin Boyce et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The enigmatic Devonian fossil Prototaxites is not a rolled-up liverwort mat: Comment on the paper by Graham et al. (AJB 97: 268-275)

(2010) Thomas N. Taylor et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Structural, physiological, and stable carbon isotopic evidence that the enigmatic Paleozoic fossil Prototaxites formed from rolled liverwort mats

(2010) Linda E. Graham et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Iron-Scytonemin Complexes: DFT Calculations on New UV Protectants for Terrestrial Cyanobacteria and Astrobiological Implications

(2010) Tereza Varnali et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Global Biogeochemical Changes at Both Ends of the Proterozoic: Insights from Phosphorites

(2010) Dominic Papineau   ASTROBIOLOGY

Did intense volcanism trigger the first Late Ordovician icehouse?

(2010) Werner Buggisch et al.   GEOLOGY

Paleozoic vegetation and the Siluro-Devonian rise of fluvial lateral accretion sets

(2010) Neil S. Davies et al.   GEOLOGY

Geomicrobiology of Eukaryotic Microorganisms

(2010) Geoffrey M. Gadd et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

SILURIAN - LOWER DEVONIAN BLACK SHALES IN MOROCCO: WHICH ARE THE ORGANICALLY RICHEST HORIZONS?

(2010) S. Lüning et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Phanerozoic concentrations of atmospheric oxygen reconstructed from sedimentary charcoal

(2010) Ian J. Glasspool et al.   Nature Geoscience

Response of phosphomonoesterase activity in the lichen Cladonia portentosa to nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in a field manipulation experiment

(2010) E. J. Hogan et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Early Middle Ordovician evidence for land plants in Argentina (eastern Gondwana)

(2010) C. V. Rubinstein et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Did a Katian large igneous province trigger the Late Ordovician glaciation?

(2010) Vincent Lefebvre et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

MARINE INFLUENCE IN THE UPPER ORDOVICIAN JUNIATA FORMATION (POTTERS MILLS, PENNSYLVANIA): IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HISTORY OF LIFE ON LAND

(2010) N. S. DAVIES et al.   PALAIOS

Aberlemnia caledonica gen. et comb. nov., a new name for Cooksonia caledonica Edwards 1970

(2010) Paul Gonez et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Mutualistic mycorrhiza-like symbiosis in the most ancient group of land plants

(2010) Claire P. Humphreys et al.   Nature Communications

Cambrian–Ordovician non-marine fossils from South Australia

(2009) Gregory J. Retallack   ALCHERINGA

A new genus and species of filamentous microfossil of cyanobacterial affinity from Early Silurian fluvial environments (lower Massanutten Sandstone, Virginia, USA)

(2009) ALEXANDRU M. F. TOMESCU et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Cambrian to Devonian evolution of alluvial systems: The sedimentological impact of the earliest land plants

(2009) Neil S. Davies et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A major drop in seawater 87Sr/86Sr during the Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian): Links to volcanism and climate?

(2009) Seth A. Young et al.   GEOLOGY

Thalloid carbonaceous incrustations and the asynchronous evolution of embryophyte characters during the Early Paleozoic

(2009) Paul K. Strother   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Horizontal transfer of the nitrogen fixation gene cluster in the cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes

(2009) Henk Bolhuis et al.   ISME Journal

Fungi evolved right on track

(2009) Robert Lücking et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Carbon isotopes support the presence of extensive land floras pre-dating the origin of vascular plants

(2009) Alexandru M.F. Tomescu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Mineralogical constraints on the paleoenvironments of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation

(2009) T. F. Bristow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conservative ecological and evolutionary patterns in liverwort-fungal symbioses

(2009) M. I. Bidartondo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Origin and Radiation of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants

(2009) P. Steemans et al.   SCIENCE

Earliest fossil record of bacterial–cyanobacterial mat consortia: the early Silurian Passage Creek biota (440 Ma, Virginia, USA)

(2008) A. M. F. TOMESCU et al.   Geobiology

Microcosm studies of the role of land plants in elevating soil carbon dioxide and chemical weathering

(2008) C. Baars et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Cell wall-bound ultraviolet-screening compounds explain the high ultraviolet tolerance of the Antarctic moss,Ceratodon purpureus

(2008) Laurence J. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ultrastructure, morphology, and topology of Cambrian palynomorphs from the Lone Rock Formation, Wisconsin, USA

(2008) Wilson A. Taylor et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Did Cooling Oceans Trigger Ordovician Biodiversification? Evidence from Conodont Thermometry

(2008) J. A. Trotter et al.   SCIENCE

A Chronology of Paleozoic Sea-Level Changes

(2008) B. U. Haq et al.   SCIENCE

Plant nutrient-acquisition strategies change with soil age

(2008) H LAMBERS et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION