Ruda Aksamit
Search results
Apr 14, 2014 · Ferns weren’t plucky holdouts consigned to some scrapheap of existence; they diversified in the shadows of other plants. These lineages had a tool that almost all other plants (and indeed, other...
Mar 16, 2021 · Although ferns can be found in baking deserts and exposed mountain tops, their place in the popular imagination remains nestled on the dank forest floor; as undergrowth and epiphytes of tall leafy trees. However, for a large part of their evolutionary history ferns have not occupied that shady niche that they so successfully do today.
- Caspar C. C. Chater
- 2
- 2021
- 16 March 2021
Apr 1, 2004 · We show that polypod ferns (> 80% of living fern species) diversified in the Cretaceous, after angiosperms, suggesting perhaps an ecological opportunistic response to the diversification of ...
- Harald Schneider, Eric Schuettpelz, Kathleen M. Pryer, Raymond Cranfill, Susana Magallón, Richard Lu...
- 2004
Dec 1, 2016 · Twelve years ago, Schneider et al. (2004a) provided key insight into the evolutionary history of land plants—that “ferns diversified in the shadow of angiosperms,” demonstrating that though ferns are an ancient lineage, the majority of extant diversity arose following the rise of angiosperm-dominated tropical forests in the ...
- Weston Testo, Michael Sundue
- 2016
We show that polypod ferns (> 80% of living fern species) diversified in the Cretaceous, after angiosperms, suggesting perhaps an ecological opportunistic response to the diversification of angiosperms, as angiosperms came to dominate terrestrial ecosystems.
Apr 28, 2014 · According to a team led by Fay-Wei Li at Duke University, North Carolina, ferns may have gained their ability to thrive in the shade by acquiring a gene from the hornwort, a tiny moss-like plant.
Mar 31, 2004 · Their studies indicate that when flowering plants, or angiosperms, evolved some 144 million years ago, ferns took advantage of ecological niches in the new angiosperm forests to diversify into a far richer array of species.
