The Miocene: The future of the past

M Steinthorsdottir, HK Coxall… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Extracting the most from terrestrial plant-derived n-alkyl lipids and their carbon isotopes from the sedimentary record: A review

AF Diefendorf, EJ Freimuth - Organic Geochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Terrestrial plant biomarkers and their carbon isotopes provide insights into carbon cycling,
paleovegetation and paleoclimate, ranging in scale from local to global. Over the past …

[HTML][HTML] V. PhyloMaker2: An updated and enlarged R package that can generate very large phylogenies for vascular plants

Y **, H Qian - Plant Diversity, 2022 - Elsevier
An earlier version of V. PhyloMaker has been broadly used to generate phylogenetic trees of
vascular plants for botanical, biogeographical and ecological studies. Here, we update and …

Constructing a broadly inclusive seed plant phylogeny

SA Smith, JW Brown - American journal of botany, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Large phylogenies can help shed light on macroevolutionary patterns
that inform our understanding of fundamental processes that shape the tree of life. These …

Global grass (P oaceae) success underpinned by traits facilitating colonization, persistence and habitat transformation

HP Linder, CER Lehmann, S Archibald… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Poaceae (the grasses) is arguably the most successful plant family, in terms of its global
occurrence in (almost) all ecosystems with angiosperms, its ecological dominance in many …

Principles of terrestrial ecosystem ecology

FS Chapin, PA Matson, HA Mooney, PM Vitousek - 2002 - Springer
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Photorespiration and the Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis

RF Sage, TL Sage, F Kocacinar - Annual review of plant biology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
C4 photosynthesis is one of the most convergent evolutionary phenomena in the biological
world, with at least 66 independent origins. Evidence from these lineages consistently …

Cenozoic evolution of the steppe-desert biome in Central Asia

N Barbolini, A Woutersen, G Dupont-Nivet… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The origins and development of the arid and highly seasonal steppe-desert biome in Central
Asia, the largest of its kind in the world, remain largely unconstrained by existing records. It …

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

EJ Edwards, CP Osborne, CAE Strömberg, SA Smith… - science, 2010 - science.org
The evolution of grasses using C4 photosynthesis and their sudden rise to ecological
dominance 3 to 8 million years ago is among the most dramatic examples of biome …

Modeling stabilizing selection: expanding the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model of adaptive evolution

JM Beaulieu, DC Jhwueng, C Boettiger, BC O'Meara - Evolution, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Comparative methods used to study patterns of evolutionary change in a continuous trait on
a phylogeny range from Brownian motion processes to models where the trait is assumed to …