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The fossil record and evolution of freshwater plants: A review

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dc.creator Martín-Closas, Carles
dc.date 2011-03-08T09:35:31Z
dc.date 2011-03-08T09:35:31Z
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:26:16Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:26:16Z
dc.identifier 1695-6133
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/16899
dc.identifier 512322
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/20812
dc.description Palaeobotany applied to freshwater plants is an emerging field of palaeontology. Hydrophytic plants reveal evolutionary trends of their own, clearly distinct from those of the terrestrial and marine flora. During the Precambrian, two groups stand out in the fossil record of freshwater plants: the Cyanobacteria (stromatolites) in benthic environments and the prasinophytes (leiosphaeridian acritarchs) in transitional planktonic environments. During the Palaeozoic, green algae (Chlorococcales, Zygnematales, charophytes and some extinct groups) radiated and developed the widest range of morphostructural patterns known for these groups. Between the Permian and Early Cretaceous, charophytes dominated macrophytic associations, with the consequence that over tens of millions of years, freshwater flora bypassed the dominance of vascular plants on land. During the Early Cretaceous, global extension of the freshwater environments is associated with diversification of the flora, including new charophyte families and the appearance of aquatic angiosperms and ferns for the first time. Mesozoic planktonic assemblages retained their ancestral composition that was dominated by coenobial Chlorococcales, until the appearance of freshwater dinoflagellates in the Early Cretaceous. In the Late Cretaceous, freshwater angiosperms dominated almost all macrophytic communities worldwide. The Tertiary was characterised by the diversification of additional angiosperm and aquatic fern lineages, which resulted in the first differentiation of aquatic plant biogeoprovinces. Phytoplankton also diversified during the Eocene with the development of freshwater diatoms and chrysophytes. Diatoms, which were exclusively marine during tens of millions of years, were dominant over the Chlorococcales during Neogene and in later assemblages. During the Quaternary, aquatic plant communities suffered from the effects of eutrophication, paludification and acidification, which were the result of the combined impact of glaciation and anthropogenic disturbance.
dc.format 24 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Institut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera (ICTJA). Institut de Diagnosi Ambiental i Estudis de l'Aigua (IDEA). Universitat Autonònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
dc.relation Reproducció del document publicat a http://www.geologica-acta.com/pdf/vol0104a02.pdf
dc.relation Geologica Acta, 2003, vol. 1, núm. 4, p. 315-338
dc.rights cc by-sa (c) Martín-Closas, 2003
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/es/
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Articles publicats en revistes (Dinàmica de la Terra i l'Oceà)
dc.subject Algas de agua dulce
dc.subject Algues fòssils
dc.subject Paleoecologia
dc.subject Freshwater algae
dc.subject Fossil algae
dc.subject Paleoecology
dc.subject Palaeoecology
dc.title The fossil record and evolution of freshwater plants: A review
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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