Dynamic Carboniferous tropical forests: new views of plant function and potential for physiological forcing of climate

The Role of Plant CO2 Physiological Forcing in Shaping Future Daily-Scale Precipitation

(2017) Christopher B. Skinner et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Extremely thick cell walls and low mesophyll conductance: welcome to the world of ancient living!

(2017) Linda-Liisa Veromann-Jürgenson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Did trees grow up to the light, up to the wind, or down to the water? How modern high productivity colors perception of early plant evolution

(2017) C. Kevin Boyce et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Comment on “Was atmospheric CO 2 capped at 1000 ppm over the past 300 million years?” by McElwain J. C. et al. [Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 441 (2016) 653–658]

(2017) Peter J. Franks et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Reply to comment on “Was atmospheric CO 2 capped at 1000 ppm over the past 300 million years?” [Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 441 (2016) 653–658]

(2017) J.C. McElwain et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Root evolution at the base of the lycophyte clade: insights from an Early Devonian lycophyte

(2016) Kelly K. S. Matsunaga et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Improving the Ginkgo CO 2 barometer: Implications for the early Cenozoic atmosphere

(2016) Richard S. Barclay et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Dryland vegetation from the Middle Pennsylvanian of Indiana (Illinois Basin): the dryland biome in glacioeustatic, paleobiogeographic, and paleoecologic context

(2016) Arden R. Bashforth et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

A Middle Pennsylvanian macrofloral assemblage from wetland deposits in Indiana (Illinois Basin): a taxonomic contribution with biostratigraphic, paleobiogeographic, and paleoecologic implications

(2016) Arden R. Bashforth et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Climate, p CO 2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial–interglacial cycles

(2016) Isabel P. Montañez et al.   Nature Geoscience

The evolution of lycopsid rooting structures: conservatism and disparity

(2016) Alexander J. Hetherington et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Was atmospheric CO 2 capped at 1000 ppm over the past 300 million years?

(2016) J.C. McElwain et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Shoot-derived abscisic acid promotes root growth

(2016) Scott A. M. McAdam et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

A Late Paleozoic climate window of opportunity

(2016) Isabel Patricia Montañez   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Networks of highly branched stigmarian rootlets developed on the first giant trees

(2016) Alexander J. Hetherington et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Belowground rhizomes in paleosols: The hidden half of an Early Devonian vascular plant

(2016) Jinzhuang Xue et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Delayed fungal evolution did not cause the Paleozoic peak in coal production

(2016) Matthew P. Nelsen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Arborescent lycopsid productivity and lifespan: Constraining the possibilities

(2016) C. Kevin Boyce et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Hydraulics of Psilophyton and evolutionary trends in plant water transport after terrestrialization

(2016) Jonathan P. Wilson   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Does Size Matter? Atmospheric CO2 May Be a Stronger Driver of Stomatal Closing Rate Than Stomatal Size in Taxa That Diversified under Low CO2

(2016) Caroline Elliott-Kingston et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates

(2015) Vincent Maire et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Exceptional preservation of tiny embryos documents seed dormancy in early angiosperms

(2015) Else Marie Friis et al.   NATURE

Using modern plant trait relationships between observed and theoretical maximum stomatal conductance and vein density to examine patterns of plant macroevolution

(2015) Jennifer C. McElwain et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The photosynthetic capacity in 35 ferns and fern allies: mesophyll CO2diffusion as a key trait

(2015) Tiina Tosens et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A model-based evaluation of tropical climate in Pangaea during the late Palaeozoic icehouse

(2015) Nicholas G. Heavens et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Investigating Devonian trees as geo-engineers of past climates: linking palaeosols to palaeobotany and experimental geobiology

(2015) Jennifer L. Morris et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Stomatal Blue Light Response Is Present in Early Vascular Plants

(2015) Michio Doi et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A calamitalean forest preserved in growth position in the Pennsylvanian coal measures of South Wales: Implications for palaeoecology, ontogeny and taphonomy

(2015) Howard J. Falcon-Lang   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Long-term climate forcing by atmospheric oxygen concentrations

(2015) C. J. Poulsen et al.   SCIENCE

Are wood fibres as sensitive to environmental conditions as vessels in tree rings with intra-annual density fluctuations (IADFs) in Mediterranean species?

(2015) Veronica De Micco et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Plastic Response of Tracheids in Pinus pinaster in a Water-Limited Environment: Adjusting Lumen Size instead of Wall Thickness

(2015) Ana Carvalho et al.   PLoS One

The earliest wood and its hydraulic properties documented inc. 407-million-year-old fossils using synchrotron microtomography

(2014) Christine Strullu-Derrien et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Middle and Late Pennsylvanian cyclothems, American Midcontinent: Ice-age environmental changes and terrestrial biotic dynamics

(2014) C. Blaine Cecil et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

New constraints on atmospheric CO2concentration for the Phanerozoic

(2014) Peter J. Franks et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Wetland-Dryland Vegetational Dynamics in the Pennsylvanian Ice Age Tropics

(2014) William A. DiMichele   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Upland Glaciation in Tropical Pangaea: Geologic Evidence and Implications for Late Paleozoic Climate Modeling

(2014) Gerilyn S. Soreghan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Cavitation Resistance in Seedless Vascular Plants: The Structure and Function of Interconduit Pit Membranes

(2014) C. Brodersen et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Late Paleozoic Ice Age: An Evolving Paradigm

(2013) Isabel P. Montañez et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Late Paleozoic continental warming of a cold tropical basin and floristic change in western Pangea

(2013) Neil J. Tabor et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Climatic and biotic changes around the Carboniferous/Permian boundary recorded in the continental basins of the Czech Republic

(2013) Stanislav Opluštil et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Reconstruction and Growth of the Early Tree Calamophyton (Pseudosporochnales, Cladoxylopsida) Based on Exceptionally Complete Specimens from Lindlar, Germany (Mid-Devonian): Organic Connection of Calamophyton Branches and Duisbergia Trunks

(2013) Peter Giesen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Importance of leaf anatomy in determining mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2 across species: quantitative limitations and scaling up by models

(2013) Magdalena Tomás et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Hydraulic limits on maximum plant transpiration and the emergence of the safety-efficiency trade-off

(2013) Stefano Manzoni et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

In situstems: preservation states and growth habits of the Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) calamitaleans based upon new studies ofCalamitesSternberg, 1820 in the Duckmantian at Brymbo, North Wales, UK

(2013) Barry A. Thomas   PALAEONTOLOGY

Permineralized Alethopteris ambigua (Lesquereux) White: A medullosan with relatively long-lived leaves, adapted for sunny habitats in mires and floodplains

(2013) Anne Raymond et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Paleoecology of Early Pennsylvanian vegetation on a seasonally dry tropical landscape (Tynemouth Creek Formation, New Brunswick, Canada)

(2013) Arden R. Bashforth et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

The Okmulgee, Oklahoma fossil flora, a Mazon Creek equivalent: Spatial conservatism in the composition of Middle Pennsylvanian wetland vegetation over 1100km

(2013) Lillien C. Moore et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Regulation of leaf hydraulics: from molecular to whole plant levels

(2013) Karine Prado et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Molecular and Fossil Evidence on the Origin of Angiosperms

(2012) James A. Doyle   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Molecular Paleohydrology: Interpreting the Hydrogen-Isotopic Composition of Lipid Biomarkers from Photosynthesizing Organisms

(2012) Dirk Sachse et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Drivers of Future Northern Latitude Runoff Change

(2012) Kelly A. Nugent et al.   ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN

Plant biodiversity changes in Carboniferous tropical wetlands

(2012) C.J. Cleal et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Deep-time evidence of a link between elevated CO2 concentrations and perturbations in the hydrological cycle via drop in plant transpiration

(2012) Margret Steinthorsdottir et al.   GEOLOGY

Eccentricity-paced late Paleozoic climate change

(2012) Daniel E. Horton et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Midday stomatal conductance is more related to stem rather than leaf water status in subtropical deciduous and evergreen broadleaf trees

(2012) YONG-JIANG ZHANG et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2: An unappreciated central player in photosynthesis

(2012) Jaume Flexas et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Permian vegetational Pompeii from Inner Mongolia and its implications for landscape paleoecology and paleobiogeography of Cathaysia

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

Leaf fossil record suggests limited influence of atmospheric CO2 on terrestrial productivity prior to angiosperm evolution

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

Conifer-dominated palynofloras in the Middle Pennsylvanian strata of the De Lutte-6 borehole, The Netherlands: Implications for evolution, palaeoecology and biostratigraphy

(2012) Thomas B. van Hoof et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Regulatory Mechanism Controlling Stomatal Behavior Conserved across 400 Million Years of Land Plant Evolution

(2011) Caspar Chater et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Stomatal innovation and the rise of seed plants

(2011) Scott A. M. McAdam et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Pennsylvanian coniferopsid forests in sabkha facies reveal the nature of seasonal tropical biome

(2011) Howard J. Falcon-Lang et al.   GEOLOGY

Evolution of fixed-channel alluvial plains in response to Carboniferous vegetation

(2011) Neil S. Davies et al.   Nature Geoscience

Xylem traits mediate a trade-off between resistance to freeze-thaw-induced embolism and photosynthetic capacity in overwintering evergreens

(2011) Brendan Choat et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Spatiotemporal extension of the Euramerican Psaronius component community to the Late Permian of Cathaysia: In situ coprolites in a P. housuoensis stem from Yunnan Province, southwest China

(2011) Ashalata D'Rozario et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

NO MAJOR STRATIGRAPHIC GAP EXISTS NEAR THE MIDDLE-UPPER PENNSYLVANIAN (DESMOINESIAN-MISSOURIAN) BOUNDARY IN NORTH AMERICA

(2011) H. J. FALCON-LANG et al.   PALAIOS

The Mechanistic Basis of Internal Conductance: A Theoretical Analysis of Mesophyll Cell Photosynthesis and CO2 Diffusion

(2011) D. Tholen et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Fossil evidence for Cretaceous escalation in angiosperm leaf vein evolution

(2011) T. S. Feild et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate forcing due to optimization of maximal leaf conductance in subtropical vegetation under rising CO2

(2011) H. J. de Boer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mid-latitude afforestation shifts general circulation and tropical precipitation

(2011) A. L. S. Swann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hydraulic patterns and safety margins, from stem to stomata, in three eastern US tree species

(2011) D. M. Johnson et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Angiosperms Helped Put the Rain in the Rainforests: The Impact of Plant Physiological Evolution on Tropical Biodiversity1

(2010) C. Kevin Boyce et al.   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

Viewing leaf structure and evolution from a hydraulic perspective

(2010) Tim J. Brodribb et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Biomarker reconstruction of the early Eocene paleotopography and paleoclimate of the northern Sierra Nevada

(2010) Michael T. Hren et al.   GEOLOGY

Cyclic changes in Pennsylvanian paleoclimate and effects on floristic dynamics in tropical Pangaea

(2010) William A. DiMichele et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Phanerozoic concentrations of atmospheric oxygen reconstructed from sedimentary charcoal

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

Influence of high-latitude vegetation feedbacks on late Palaeozoic glacial cycles

(2010) Daniel E. Horton et al.   Nature Geoscience

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE COAL FORESTS DURING PENNSYLVANIAN GLACIAL PHASES?

(2010) H. J. FALCON-LANG et al.   PALAIOS

A physiologically explicit morphospace for tracheid-based water transport in modern and extinct seed plants

(2010) Jonathan P. Wilson et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

The Relationships between Xylem Safety and Hydraulic Efficiency in the Cupressaceae: The Evolution of Pit Membrane Form and Function

(2010) J. Pittermann et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Global patterns in leaf 13C discrimination and implications for studies of past and future climate

(2010) A. F. Diefendorf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The function of the aerenchyma in arborescent lycopsids: evidence of an unfamiliar metabolic strategy

(2010) W. A. Green   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2010) C. K. Boyce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Passive Origins of Stomatal Control in Vascular Plants

(2010) T. J. Brodribb et al.   SCIENCE

Variable conductivity and embolism in roots and branches of four contrasting tree species and their impacts on whole-plant hydraulic performance under future atmospheric CO2 concentration

(2010) J.-C. Domec et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Morphological variation of intervessel pit membranes and implications to xylem function in angiosperms

(2009) Steven Jansen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Phanerozoic atmospheric oxygen: New results using the GEOCARBSULF model

(2009) R. A. Berner   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

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

(2009) Tim J. Brodribb et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate and vegetational regime shifts in the late Paleozoic ice age earth

(2009) W. A. DIMICHELE et al.   Geobiology

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

(2009) P. J. FRANKS et al.   Geobiology

Incised channel fills containing conifers indicate that seasonally dry vegetation dominated Pennsylvanian tropical lowlands

(2009) Howard J. Falcon-Lang et al.   GEOLOGY

Paradox of late Paleozoic glacioeustasy

(2009) D. E. Horton et al.   GEOLOGY

Cordaiteans in paleotropical wetlands: An ecological re-evaluation

(2009) Anne Raymond et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Reconstructing Emporia lockardii (Voltziales: Emporiaceae) and Initial Thoughts on Paleozoic Conifer Ecology

(2009) Genaro R. Hernandez-Castillo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Role of mesophyll diffusion conductance in constraining potential photosynthetic productivity in the field

(2009) Ülo Niinemets et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Structure and function of bordered pits: new discoveries and impacts on whole-plant hydraulic function

(2009) Brendan Choat et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

New insights into bordered pit structure and cavitation resistance in angiosperms and conifers

(2009) Brendan Choat et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Earliest rooting system and root : shoot ratio from a new Zosterophyllum plant

(2009) Shougang Hao et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Embolism resistance of three boreal conifer species varies with pit structure

(2009) Uwe G. Hacke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pennsylvanian paleokarst and cave fills from northern Illinois, USA: A window into late Carboniferous environments and landscapes

(2009) R. E. Plotnick et al.   PALAIOS

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

Maximum leaf conductance driven by CO2 effects on stomatal size and density over geologic time

(2009) P. J. Franks 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

Unexpected complexity of the Aquaporin gene family in the moss Physcomitrella patens

(2008) Jonas ÅH Danielson et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Integrating Molecular Phylogenetic and Paleobotanical Evidence on Origin of the Flower

(2008) James A. Doyle   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Stratigraphic imprint of the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age in eastern Australia: a record of alternating glacial and nonglacial climate regime

(2008) CHRISTOPHER R. FIELDING et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Modelling of stomatal density response to atmospheric

(2008) W. Konrad et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Palaeofloristics of Middle Pennsylvanian medullosaleans in Variscan Euramerica

(2008) Christopher J. Cleal   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Palaeofloristics of Middle Pennsylvanian lyginopteridaleans in Variscan Euramerica

(2008) Christopher J. Cleal   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The so-called “Paleophytic–Mesophytic” transition in equatorial Pangea — Multiple biomes and vegetational tracking of climate change through geological time

(2008) William A. DiMichele et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Modeling fluid flow in Medullosa, an anatomically unusual Carboniferous seed plant

(2008) Jonathan P. Wilson et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Anatomically preserved lepidodendralean plants from lower permian coal balls of northern China: Achlamydocarpon intermedium sp. nov.

(2008) Yi-Long Zhou et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

Optimal vein density in artificial and real leaves

(2008) X. Noblin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wood anatomy and hydraulic architecture of stems and twigs of some Mediterranean trees and shrubs along a mesic-xeric gradient

(2008) Veronica De Micco et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Wood anatomy and biometric parameters variation of Eucalyptus globulus clones

(2008) Mauricio Ramírez et al.   WOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY