Transformative Paleobotany : Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor /: Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Krings, Carla J. Harper, Néstor Rubén Cúneo, and Gar W. Rothwell.
• Editors: Krings, Michael; Harper, Carla J; Cúneo, Néstor Rubén; Rothwell, Gar W
• Other Names: Taylor, Thomas N honouree.
• Contents: 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 3.1 Sporogenesis and Cryptospore Morphology3.2 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 ACKNOWLEDGMENTSREFERENCES; 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 3.4.2 North Shore, Gaspe, Quebec: A Puzzle to Be Solved3.4.2.1 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 1. INTRODUCTION2. 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
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 561; Paleobotany; SCIENCE / Paleontology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128130131
• Related ISBNs: 012813013X; 9780128130124
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed July 23 2018).
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