Constraining the role of early land plants in Palaeozoic weathering and global cooling

Weathering, secondary mineral genesis, and soil formation caused by lichens and mosses growing on granitic gneiss in a boreal forest environment

(2015) Togwell A. Jackson   GEODERMA

Ectomycorrhizal fungi and past high CO2 atmospheres enhance mineral weathering through increased below-ground carbon-energy fluxes

(2014) J. Quirk et al.   Biology Letters

Record of climatic fluctuations and high pH weathering conditions in a thick Ordovician palaeosol developed in rhyolite of the Dunn Point Formation, Arisaig, Nova Scotia, Canada

(2014) P. JUTRAS et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Estimating impacts of lichens and bryophytes on global biogeochemical cycles

(2014) Philipp Porada et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

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

The Origin and Early Evolution of Roots

(2014) P. Kenrick et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Evolution of trees and mycorrhizal fungi intensifies silicate mineral weathering

(2012) J. Quirk et al.   Biology Letters

Oldest known mosses discovered in Mississippian (late Visean) strata of Germany

(2012) Maren Hübers et al.   GEOLOGY

First plants cooled the Ordovician

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

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

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Evaluating the effects of terrestrial ecosystems, climate and carbon dioxide on weathering over geological time: a global-scale process-based approach

(2012) L. L. Taylor et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Modeling the evolutionary rise of ectomycorrhiza on sub-surface weathering environments and the geochemical carbon cycle

(2011) L. Taylor et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

The dawn of symbiosis between plants and fungi

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

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

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

Biological weathering and the long-term carbon cycle: integrating mycorrhizal evolution and function into the current paradigm

(2009) L. L. TAYLOR et al.   Geobiology

Plant-driven fungal weathering: Early stages of mineral alteration at the nanometer scale

(2009) Steeve Bonneville et al.   GEOLOGY

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

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