The first land plants (Embryophyta ... paper states that the Zygnematophyceae possess adaptations to withstand terrestrial stressors, such as desiccation, ultraviolet light, freezing, and other ...

This graphic shows key events in the establishment of a land flora. These were the primordial ... Other lineages established themselves as extant terrestrial charophytes, here exemplified by ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic ...

In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would exist them. “Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists,” says McMaster University biochemistry professor Gerry Wright. Fungi produce ...

Regions of similar climate and dominant plant types are called biomes. This chapter describes some of the major terrestrial biomes ... between 26–35% of the land surface of the Earth.

The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...

On land, many plants, such as legumes, form an intimate symbiotic relationship ... important part of the functioning of these communities.” W. Mohr et al., “Terrestrial-type nitrogen-fixing symbiosis ...

Rising global temperatures are driving the sharp decline in terrestrial water storage. This trend isn’t likely to change, scientists say.

Nankai University researchers have found that plant leaves can directly absorb microplastics (MPs) from the atmosphere, ...

Total C in terrestrial ... growth of plants that may have consequences for soil carbon (Ehrenfeld et al. 1992). The combined effects of changes in carbon inputs and losses from land use, land ...

Mammals evolved for land life before the ... This transformation of the plant life probably had some effect on the mammals, forcing many of them towards terrestrial habitats as they became ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. A research group examined terrestrial reliance of 19 ...