The origin of a land flora fundamentally shifted the course of evolution of life on earth,
facilitating terrestrialization of other eukaryotic lineages and altering the planet's geology …

The acquisition of stomata is one of the key innovations that led to the colonisation of the
terrestrial environment by the earliest land plants. However, our understanding of the origin …

The evolution of transporting tissues was an important innovation in terrestrial plants that
allowed them to adapt to almost all nonaquatic environments. These tissues consist of water …

During the mid-Palaeozoic, vascular land plants (ie, tracheophytes) underwent a great
radiation that triggered the development of the land biosphere–the so-called Silurian …

Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …

Land plant life cycles are separated into distinct haploid gametophyte and diploid
sporophyte stages. Indeterminate apical growth evolved independently in bryophyte (moss …

The evolution of the land plant alternation of generations has been an open question for the
past 150 years. Two hypotheses have dominated the discussion: the antithetic hypothesis …

This contribution reviews the evidence for terrestrial organisms during the Ordovician
(microbial, land plant, fungal, animal) and for the nature of the terrestrial biota. The evidence …

The latitudinal biodiversity gradient, with tropical regions acting as 'evolutionary cradles', is a
cornerstone of current biogeographical and ecological theory. In the modern world floral …

Introduction Half a century since the creation of the International Association of Bryologists,
we carried out a review to identify outstanding challenges and future perspectives in …