The delayed resurgence of equatorial forests after the permian-triassic ecologic crisis.

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  • C V Looy
  • W A Brugman
  • D L Dilcher
  • H Visscher
چکیده

In conjunction with the Permian-Triassic ecologic crisis approximately 250 million years ago, massive dieback of coniferous vegetation resulted in a degradation of terrestrial ecosystems in Europe. A 4- to 5-million-year period of lycopsid dominance followed, and renewed proliferation of conifers did not occur before the transition between Early and Middle Triassic. We document this delayed re-establishment of equatorial forests on the basis of palynological data. The reconstructed pattern of vegetational change suggests that habitat restoration, migration, and evolutionary processes acted synergistically, setting the stage for successional replacement of lycopsid dominants by conifers within a period of approximately 0.5 million years.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

دوره 96 24  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999