PLANTS, PEOPLE, AND PALEOECOLOGY: BIOTIC COMMUNITIES AND ABORIGINAL PLANT USAGE IN ILLINOIS

By CHARLOTTE LEE

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION EMBRYOPHYTES ON LAND: THE ORDOVICIAN TO LOCHKOVIAN (LOWER DEVONIAN) RECORD RUSTLING IN THE UNDERGROWTH: ANIMALS IN EARLY TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS NEW DATA ON NOTHIA APHYLLA LYON 1964 EX EL-SAADAWY ET LACEY 1979, A POORLY KNOWN PLANT FROM THE LOWER DEVONIAN RHYNIE CHERT MORPHOLOGY OF ABOVE- AND BELOW-GROUND STRUCTURES IN EARLY DEVONIAN (PRAGIAN–EMSIAN) PLANTS THE POSONGCHONG FLORAL ASSEMBLAGES OF SOUTHEASTERN YUNNAN, CHINA—DIVERSITY AND DISPARITY IN EARLY DEVONIAN PLANT ASSEMBLAGES THE MIDDLE DEVONIAN FLORA REVISITED THE ORIGIN, MORPHOLOGY, AND ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF EARLY EMBRYOPHYTES: NEONTOLOGICAL AND PALEONTOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES BIOLOGICAL ROLES FOR PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS IN THE EVOLUTION OF EARLY LAND PLANTS THE EFFECT OF THE RISE OF LAND PLANTS ON ATMOSPHERIC CO2 DURING THE PALEOZOIC EARLY TERRESTRIAL PLANT ENVIRONMENTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE EMSIAN OF GASPÉ, CANADA EFFECTS OF THE MIDDLE TO LATE DEVONIAN SPREAD OF VASCULAR LAND PLANTS ON WEATHERING REGIMES, MARINE BIOTAS, AND GLOBAL CLIMATE DIVERSI?CATION OF SILURO-DEVONIAN PLANT TRACES IN PALEOSOLS AND IN?UENCE ON ESTIMATES OF PALEOATMOSPHERIC CO2 LEVELS REFERENCES