caa a22 4500 445299991 CHVBK 20180317142554.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20101201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11430-010-4079-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11430-010-4079-8 The evolution of Paleozoic vascular land plant diversity of South China [Elektronische Daten] [Yi Wang, Jun Wang, HongHe Xu, XueZhi He] Data of Paleozoic and some Early Triassic vascular land plant fossils from South China are synthetically analyzed, revealing evolutionary characteristics of Paleozoic vascular land plant diversity. Vascular land plant diversity keeps increasing in the Paleozoic as a whole. The Silurian witnessed the earliest evolution and initial diversification of land plants. From the Early Devonian to the Early Carboniferous (Mississippian), the great development, diversification, and differentiation really occurred in vascular land plants, with fluctuations of diversity, rapid replacement of the plant types, and an all-out takeover of terrestrial ecological niches. From the Early Permian, land plant diversity dramatically increased, and reached a climax in the Middle-Late Permian. Comparisons between late Paleozoic marine and terrestrial biodiversity reveal co-evolution of the late Paleozoic animals and plants as well as the individual evolutionary patterns of sea/land ecosystems. Vascular land plant diversity dramatically declined in the Frasnian as a result of the F/F event, and the end-Permian mass extinctions completely turned over the phytogroups. Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010 Paleozoic nationallicence vascular land plants nationallicence diversity nationallicence sea-land co-evolution nationallicence South China nationallicence Wang Yi State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut Wang Jun State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut Xu HongHe State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut He XueZhi State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut Science China Earth Sciences SP Science China Press 53/12(2010-12-01), 1828-1835 1674-7313 53:12<1828 2010 53 11430 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-010-4079-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-010-4079-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Yi State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Jun State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Xu HongHe State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- He XueZhi State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science China Earth Sciences SP Science China Press 53/12(2010-12-01), 1828-1835 1674-7313 53:12<1828 2010 53 11430 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer