BIOL 1F90 Lecture 25: BIOL 1F90 lecture 25 winter 2016

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Ancestral seedless vascular plants (lycophytes and pteridophytes) grew to great heights. These forests may have helped produce the global cooling at the end of the carboniferous, forming the rst forests. The decaying plants of these carboniferous forests eventually became coal. Synthesis: seedless nonvascular plants helped transform terrestrial ecology. Liverworts and mosses produce decay-resistant body tissues. Used modern data to estimate ecological impact of early vascular plants. Could have begun process of organic carbon burial that helps to reduce amount of greenhouse gas co2 in the atmosphere. Under cooler than normal conditions, sphagnum grows more slowly and thus absorbs less. Co2, allowing atmospheric co2 to rise a bit. Since atmospheric co2 helps t war earth"s climate, increasing co2 warms the climate a little. When the climate warms, su ciently, sphagnum grows faster, thereby sponging up more. Reducing atmospheric co2 returns the climate to slightly cooler conditions. Synthesis: seedless vascular plants also changed terrestrial ecology.

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