Cretaceous angiosperm flowers: innovation and evolution in plant reproduction

EM Friis, KR Pedersen, PR Crane - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology …, 2006‏ - Elsevier
Information on the fossil record of angiosperms has expanded dramatically over the past
twenty-five years, and in particular the discovery of numerous mesofossil floras with fossil …

South American palaeobotany and the origins of neotropical rainforests

RJ Burnham, KR Johnson - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2004‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Extant neotropical rainforest biomes are characterized by a high diversity and abundance of
angiosperm trees and vines, high proportions of entire–margined leaves, high proportions of …

Radiation of the Australian flora: what can comparisons of molecular phylogenies across multiple taxa tell us about the evolution of diversity in present–day …

M Crisp, L Cook, D Steane - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2004‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Australian fossil record shows that from ca. 25 Myr ago, the aseasonal–wet biome
(rainforest and wet heath) gave way to the unique Australian sclerophyll biomes dominated …

Fire and the spread of flowering plants in the Cretaceous

WJ Bond, AC Scott - New Phytologist, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
We suggest that the spread of angiosperms in the Cretaceous was facilitated by novel fire
regimes. Angiosperms were capable of high productivity and therefore accumulated …

Angiosperm floral evolution: morphological developmental framework

PK Endress - Advances in botanical research, 2006‏ - Elsevier
This chapter brings together aspects of floral development and evolution in angiosperms
derived from the diversity of structures of extant plants. It provides a framework especially …

Cretaceous wildfires and their impact on the Earth system

SAE Brown, AC Scott, IJ Glasspool, ME Collinson - Cretaceous research, 2012‏ - Elsevier
A comprehensive compilation of literature on global Cretaceous charcoal occurrences
shows that from the Valanginian on throughout the Cretaceous, terrestrial sedimentary …

Not so ancient: the extant crown group of Nothofagus represents a post-Gondwanan radiation

LG Cook, MD Crisp - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2005‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
This study uses a molecular-dating approach to test hypotheses about the biogeography of
Nothofagus. The molecular modelling suggests that the present-day subgenera and species …

A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses

SB Janssens, TLP Couvreur, A Mertens… - Biodiversity data …, 2020‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Phylogenies are a central and indispensable tool for evolutionary and ecological research.
Even though most angiosperm families are well investigated from a phylogenetic point of …

Flower structure and trends of evolution in eudicots and their major subclades1

PK Endress - Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 2010‏ - BioOne
Eudicots and their currently recognized major subclades are characterized as to floral
structure (including some “embryological” features) based on ca. 3000 original publications …

Fossils and plant phylogeny

PR Crane, P Herendeen… - American Journal of Botany, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
Develo** a detailed estimate of plant phylogeny is the key first step toward a more
sophisticated and particularized understanding of plant evolution. At many levels in the …