Constraining the role of early land plants in Palaeozoic weathering and global cooling

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1813, 2015, Pages

  Quirk, Joe ^a   Leake, Jonathan R ^a   Johnson, David A ^a   Taylor, Lyla L ^a   Saccone, Loredana ^a   Beerling, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhiza; Atmospheric CO2; Biological weathering; Land plant evolution; Palaeozoic climate

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BASALT; CALCIUM; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COLONIZATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FOSSIL; FUNGUS; GLACIATION; LIVERWORT; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS CYCLE; PHYLLOSILICATE; ROCK; SYMBIONT; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; WEATHERING;

EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; MARCHANTIOPHYTA;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MARCHANTIA; MYCORRHIZA;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; MARCHANTIA; MYCORRHIZAE;

EID: 84938878507     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1115     Document Type: Article

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