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SUMMARY:Why study early land plants? - Prof. Dianne Edwards\, School of Ea
 rth & Ocean Sciences\, University of Cardiff
DTSTART:20110224T160000Z
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CONTACT:Helen Scott
DESCRIPTION:Recent interest in global environmental change has stimulated 
 interest on those in the past\, not the least the influence of phytoterres
 trialisation. These were the plants that changed the face of the planet--i
 ts biosphere\, lithosphere and atmosphere. To date it has been the vascula
 r plants that have dominated research. Yet these were not the earliest lan
 d colonisers. It remains an enormous frustration that we know relatively l
 ittle about land vegetation in Ordovician and Silurian times before the ad
 vent of vascular plants when the record is based principally on spores. Ou
 r recent investigations on very small charcoalified fossils with in situ s
 pores are beginning to reveal the nature and relationships of these plants
 \, and will be the focus of the talk.\n\n\nhttp://www.cardiff.ac.uk/earth/
 contactsandpeople/profiles/edwards-dianne.html 
LOCATION:Department of Plant Sciences\, Large Lecture Theatre
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