An exceptional role for flowering plant physiology in the expansion of tropical rainforests and biodiversity

Decoding Leaf Hydraulics with a Spatially Explicit Model: Principles of Venation Architecture and Implications for Its Evolution

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Leaf hydraulic evolution led a surge in leaf photosynthetic capacity during early angiosperm diversification

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CO2-forced evolution of plant gas exchange capacity and water-use efficiency over the Phanerozoic

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Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejon Formation, Colombia, are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforest

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Evidence for a Cenozoic radiation of ferns in an angiosperm-dominated canopy

(2009) E. Schuettpelz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rosid radiation and the rapid rise of angiosperm-dominated forests

(2009) H. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Angiosperm leaf vein evolution was physiologically and environmentally transformative

(2009) C. K. Boyce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fossil Plant Relative Abundances Indicate Sudden Loss of Late Triassic Biodiversity in East Greenland

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Evolutionary significance of a flat-leaved Pinus in Vietnamese rainforest

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