Plants invade the land: evolutionary and environmental perspectives

What do we know about the origins of plants on land, from an evolutionary and an environmental perspective?

The essays in this collection present a synthesis of our present state of knowledge, integrating current information in paleobotony with physical, chemical, and geological data.

Stretching from the Ordovician to the Upper Devonian (500-360 million years ago), the book covers the period of major global change as a result of diversification of plants and their impact on the environment.;The essays include the interplay of plants and their environments and other coeval organisms (animals, fungi) and suggest further avenues of investigation.