Symbiotic options for the conquest of land

KJ Field, S Pressel, JG Duckett, WR Rimington… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
The domination of the landmasses of Earth by plants starting during the Ordovician Period
drastically altered the development of the biosphere and the composition of the atmosphere …

Bryophyte biogeography

J Patiño, A Vanderpoorten - Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Bryophytes include about 20,000 species characterized by their poikilohydric condition, high
long-distance dispersal capacities, and cold tolerance. Despite these specific life-history …

Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants

BJ Harris, JW Clark, D Schrempf, GJ Szöllősi… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of plants and their colonization of land fundamentally transformed the terrestrial
environment. Here we elucidate the basis of this formative episode in Earth history through …

[HTML][HTML] World checklist of hornworts and liverworts

L Söderström, A Hagborg, M Von Konrat… - PhytoKeys, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A working checklist of accepted taxa worldwide is vital in achieving the goal of developing
an online flora of all known plants by 2020 as part of the Global Strategy for Plant …

The liverworts and hornworts of Colombia and Ecuador

SR Gradstein - 2021 - Springer
Work toward this book spans almost half a century. I started work on liverworts of Colombia
in 1970–71 during my Ph. D. study at the University of Cincinnati. My advisor, Margaret H …

Going under down under? Lineage ages argue for extensive survival of the Oligocene marine transgression on Zealandia

GP Wallis, F Jorge - Molecular Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Twenty‐five years ago, it was suggested that current‐day New Zealand, part of the largely
sunken continent of Zealandia, could have been completely inundated during the Oligocene …

By how much do we underestimate species diversity of liverworts using morphological evidence? An example from Australasian Plagiochila (Plagiochilaceae …

MAM Renner, MM Heslewood, SDF Patzak… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2017 - Elsevier
As a framework for revisionary study of the leafy liverwort Plagiochila in Australia, two
methods for species delimitation on molecular sequence data, General Mixed Yule …

Global biogeographic patterns in bipolar moss species

EM Biersma, JA Jackson, J Hyvönen… - Royal Society …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A bipolar disjunction is an extreme, yet common, biogeographic pattern in non-vascular
plants, yet its underlying mechanisms (vicariance or long-distance dispersal), origin and …

An ancient tropical origin, dispersals via land bridges and Miocene diversification explain the subcosmopolitan disjunctions of the liverwort genus Lejeunea

GE Lee, FL Condamine, J Bechteler… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding the biogeographical and diversification processes explaining current
diversity patterns of subcosmopolitan-distributed groups is challenging. We aimed at …

The role of paleontological data in bryophyte systematics

AC Bippus, JR Flores, J Hyvönen… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Systematics reconstructs tempo and mode in biological evolution by resolving the
phylogenetic fabric of biodiversity. The staggering duration and complexity of evolution …