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! J.A. Craig et al. (2025): True substrates from a Mississippian wetland: windows into the biogeomorphology of Visean tetrapod habitats (Tyne Limestone Formation, UK). Open access, Geological Society, London, Special Publications: 556: 343-372.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Category:Terrestrial biomes.
Category:Wetlands.
Category:Aquatic ecology.
! Wetland.
Feuchtgebiet (in German).
Palustrine wetland.

H. Kerp and B. Bomfleur (2011): Photography of plant fossils - New techniques, old tricks. In PDF, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 166: 117-151.
See also here.

Wiadomosci Botaniczne, 50, (2006): Portraits of Polish Botanists. Some pictures of palaeobotanists. (PDF file, in Polish).

S, Murthy et al. (2025): Palynofloral and geochemical evidence for Permian-Triassic transition from Talcher Coalfield, Son-Mahanadi Basin, India: Insights into age, palaeovegetation, palaeoclimate and palaeowildfire Free access, Geoscience Frontiers, 16.
"... the present study analysed the palynology, palynofacies, organic geochemistry (biomarkers), stable isotopes, and charcoal within the subsurface Gondwana deposits of the Kamthi Formation (late Permian-early Triassic) ..."

R. Neregato and R. Rohn (2025): A New Late Permian Sphenophyte Strobilus in the Paraná Basin, Brazil. In PDF.
See here as well.

V.A. Korasidis and B.E. Wagstaff (2025): Cool-temperate riparian floras in the Early Cretaceous rift valley of Victoria, Australia. Open access, Alcheringa. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2489614.
Note figure 14: Reconstruction of cool-temperate rainforest and fluvial environments in southeast Australian during the late Albian.
"... we studied 291 palynological samples from 48 sites in the Otway and Gippsland basins. Podocarpaceae represent the major component of the open canopy forests ..."

S. Kock and M.K. Bamford (2025): Fossil wood from the Permian-Triassic Beaufort Group of South Africa's Karoo Basin: Implications for palaeoclimate. Free access, Earth History and Biodiversity, 5.
"... Tree-growth rings act as high-resolution climate proxies because wood anatomy is directly related to water uptake and tree growth. 190 silicified wood samples representing three taxa from the main Karoo Basin of South Africa were analysed ..."

L. Liu et al. (2025): Ordovician marine Charophyceae and insights into land plant derivations. In PDF, Nature Plants, 11. See likewise here.
Note figure 4: Morphological and palaeoecological reconstructions of Tarimochara miraclensis gen. et sp. nov.

C.A. Bueno-Cebollada et al. (2024): A new occurrence of the angiosperm genus Montsechia in upper Albian strata from the Maestrazgo Basin (Utrillas Group, Eastern Iberia). In PDF, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 321. See also here.
"... This research paper reports the youngest known occurrence of the genus Montsechia, in upper Albian amberbearing strata from the Maestrazgo Basin (NE Spain)
[...] the studied remains were found as a minor component of a supratidal coastal plant association largely dominated by conifers ..."

J.W. Schneider et al. (2024): Palökologie im Karbon und Perm des Thüringer-Wald-BeckensPDF file, in German. chapter 18, in: Die Rotliegend-Fauna des Thüringer Waldes. - pp. 199-256

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E.A. Wheeler and P. Baas (2019): Wood evolution: Baileyan trends and functional traits in the fossil record. In PDF, IAWA journal.
See here as well.
"... We revisited questions about changes in the incidences of functional wood anatomical traits through geologic time
[...] We suggest that tropical conditions have accelerated xylem evolution towards greater hydraulic efficiency (simple perforations), biological defense and hydraulic repair (elaborate paratracheal parenchyma patterns) as evidenced by late Cretaceous tropical latitude woods ..."

M. Barbacka et al. (2025): Late Jurassic plant fossils from Wólka Baltowska (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Free access, Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 95.
See likewise here.

Newsbreak:
Was Ellie Sattler Based on a Real Paleobotanist? (by Mitul Biswas, 2025).
About the perception of (fictional) paleobotanists in the public. See also:
Ellie Sattler (Wikipedia).

Ehow.com:
Salary of a Paleobotanist.
Retrieved from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

N. Gary Lane, Falls of the Ohio State Park:
A Career in Paleontology. From The Paleontological Society brochure.
This expired link is now available through the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

The Paleontology Portal. (produced by the University of California Museum of Paleontology, the Paleontological Society, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and the United States Geological Survey; funded by the National Science Foundation):
Careers, and PaleoPeople.
These expired links are now available through the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.

! J.W. Clark and P.C.J. Donoghue (2025): Uncertainty in the timing of diversification of flowering plants rests with equivocal interpretation of their fossil record. R. Soc. Open Sci., 12: 242158. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.242158. See likewise here.
"... We show that the disagreement between molecular and palaeobotanical estimates is an artefact of interpretations of the fossil record
[...] Attention should be refocused on the history of stem-angiosperms in which the body plan of this most successful lineage of land plants was assembled ...

D. Quiroz-Cabascango et al. (2025): Earliest Jurassic plant assemblages from Sweden reveal a low-diversity ginkgoalean and cheirolepid flora dominating the post-extinction landscape. Free access, Annals of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf143.
Note figure 9A: Centimetre-scale charcoalified wood fragments in feldspathic sandstone.
"The low-diversity post-extinction recovery forests of the earliest Jurassic were dominated by ginkgoopsids, cheirolepid conifers and ferns, growing under seasonal mesothermal conditions. Dispersed charcoal indicates wildfires were present in the landscape at this time ..."

H. Nguyen and V.K. Huong (2025): Integrating Plant Fossil Proxies and Biomarkers to Reconstruct Deep-Time Paleoclimate, Paleoecology, and Evolutionary Dynamics. In PDF, Scientific Research Journal of Biology and Life Science, 3.
"... This paper reviews and synthesizes evidence from plant fossil records—particularly fossil leaves and resins— and their associated biomarkers, along with geological and paleogeographic data, to reconstruct past climates and ecosystems ..."

B. Adroit et al. (2025): Editorial: Changes in plant–herbivore interactions across time scales: bridging paleoecology and contemporary ecology. In PDF, Front. Ecol. Evol. 12: 1539173. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2024.1539173

S.D. Burgess and B.A. Black (2025): The Anatomy and Lethality of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province. Free access, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science, 53: 567–945.
"... This review provides a summary of recent advances and key questions regarding the Siberian Traps in an effort to illuminate what combination of factors made the Siberian Traps a uniquely deadly LIP ..."

! R.A. Gastaldo et al. (2020): The Coal Farms of the Late Paleozoic. PDF file, in E. Martinetto, E. Tschopp, R.A. Gastaldo (eds.): Nature Through Time: Virtual Field Trips Through the Nature of the Past, pp. 317–43. Cham, Switz.: Springer.
See also here.

S. Pla-Pueyo and E.H. Gierlowski-Kordesch (2025): Wetlands as environments of early human occupation: A new classification for freshwater palaeowetlands. Open access, The Depositional Record. DOI: 10.1002/dep2.327.
"... A new classification for inland freshwater palaeowetlands, with a focus on carbonate wetlands, is proposed here, recognising key features that an be preserved in the fossil record ..."

M.E. Olson (2012): Linear Trends in Botanical Systematics and the Major Trends of Xylem Evolution. In PDF, The Botanical Review, 78: 154-183.
Retrieved from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. See here as well.

The Full Wiki Project (an independent publishing company based in Sydney, Australia): Extinction events: Reference.
Retrieved from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

D.M. Njoroge et al. (2025): The effects of invertebrates on wood decomposition across the world. In PDF, Biological Reviews, 100: 158-171. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13134.
See likewise here.
"... we investigated what drives the invertebrate effect on wood decomposition worldwide. Globally, we found wood decomposition rates were on average approximately 40% higher when invertebrates were present compared to when they were excluded. This effect was most pronounced in the tropics, owing mainly to the activities of termites ..."

! E. Mujal et al. (2025): Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas of the Central European Basin, their stratigraphical distribution, and their palaeoenvironments. Free access, Earth-Science Reviews, 264.
! Note figure 1: Palaeogeography of the Triassic of Pangaea and the Central European Basin (CEB), and stratigraphy of the German Triassic.
"... A review of the fossil evidence permits the recognition of new patterns of diversity for various clades during the recovery period following the end-Permian mass extinction
[...] the CEB [Central European Basin] provides an excellent record for studying the evolution of Triassic terrestrial tetrapod faunas along with environmental changes over much of that period ..."

V. Zimorski et al. (2019): Energy metabolism in anaerobic eukaryotes and Earth's late oxygenation. Free access, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 140: 279-294.
Note fig. 1: Summary of oxygen accumulation of earth history.

J. Wang et al. (2012): Permian vegetational Pompeii from Inner Mongolia and its implications for landscape paleoecology and paleobiogeography of Cathaysia. In PDF, PNAS. See also:
Ash-covered forest is "Permian Pompeii" (S. Perkins, Nature).

T.N. Taylor et al. (2011): The advantage of thin section preparations over acetate peels in the study of late Paleozoic fungi and other microorganisms. In PDF, Palaios, 26: 239–244. See also here (abstract).

! S. Magallón et al. (2025): A metacalibrated time-tree documents the early rise of flowering plant phylogenetic diversity. Free access, New Phytologist, 207: 249-479.
Note figure 1: Molecular and fossil-based estimates of angiosperm age.
"... A large number of fossil-derived calibrations and a confidence interval on angiosperm age have been combined in relaxed clock analyses to provide a time-frame of angiosperm evolution. The maximum age of the onset of diversification of angiosperms into their living diversity has been calculated with high confidence to lie in the Early Cretaceous ..."

Z. Wawrzyniak and P. Filipiak (2023): Fossil floral from the Upper Triassic Grabowa Formation (Upper Silesia, southern Poland) Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 93: 165–193.
See likewise here.

W.K. Cornwell et al. (2009): Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed? PDF file, Global Change Biology, 15: 2431-2449.
See also here.
Note figure 1: The five major fates for woody debris.
Table 2: Stem anatomy differences across woody and pseudo-woody plant clades.

G. Mussini and F.S. Dunn (2024): Decline and fall of the Ediacarans: late-Neoproterozoic extinctions and the rise of the modern biosphere. In PDF, Biological Reviews, 99: 110–130. See here as well.
"... The end-Neoproterozoic transition marked a gradual but permanent shift between distinct configurations of Earth’s biosphere. This interval witnessed the demise of the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota ..."

R.E. Leary (1975): Early Pennsylvanian paleogeography of an upland area, western Illinois, USA . In PDF, Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de Belgique, 84: 19-31.

K. Opitek et al. (2025): Morphology and mode of life of a peculiar Devonian microconchid tubeworm Aculeiconchus from Wyoming, USA. Open access, Lethaia, 57. https://doi.org/10.18261/let.57.4.8.
! Note figure 7: Artists’ reconstructions of a Late Devonian estuary habitat showing non-calcified algae encrusted by abundant microconchids.

J.D. White et al. (1996): Remote sensing of forest fire severity and vegetation recovery. In PDF, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 6: 125-136. See also here (abstract).

Andrew B. Heckert, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque:
The Oldest Triassic Strata Exposed in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
Retrieved from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

L. Azevedo-Schmidt et al. (2025): Advancing terrestrial ecology by improving cross-temporal research and collaboration. Free access, BioScience, 75: 15–29.
"... we compared two previous studies
[...] a path forward is outlined, focusing on education and training, research infrastructure, and collaboration ..."

F.R. Badenes-Pérez (2025): Plant–Insect Interactions: Host Plant Resistance, Biological Control, and Pollination. Open access, Plants, 14. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants14101488.

X. Delclòs et al. (2025): Cretaceous amber of Ecuador unveils new insights into South America's Gondwanan forests. Free access, Communications Earth & Environment, 6. See likewise here. (in PDF).

J. Lee (2025): Deep-Time Evolution of Tubers in Equisetum and the Broader Sphenophytes. Abstract, International Journal of Plant Sciences, 186.

! R.F. Sage (2020): Global change biology: a primer. Open access, Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14893.
Note figure 1: A simple schematic illustrating how impacts of a global change driver can cascade through ecosystems to erode diversity and simplify ecosystems in terms of reduced species richness, ecosystem structure, trophic complexity, and function.
"... This review identifies 10 anthropogenic global change drivers and discusses how six of the drivers (atmospheric CO2 enrichment, climate change, land transformation, species exploitation, exotic species invasions, eutrophication) impact Earth's biodiversity ..."

M.S. Kent et al. (2025): Simulated charcoalification of Lycopodium spores: The usefulness of spore colour and chemistry for understanding the fossil record. Free access, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 343.
"... The fossil pollen and spore (sporomorph) record includes occurrences of darkened grains typically attributed to thermal maturation from geological processes
[...] we propose another explanation: variation in sporomorph colour and darkness may result from combustion in wildfires during large-scale ecological disturbances prior to fossilisation. To test this hypothesis, we investigate how pyrolysis might impact Lycopodium spore colour and darkness. ..."

M. Laaß et al. (2025): Host-specific leaf-mining behaviour of holometabolous insect larvae in the early Permian. Open access, Scientific reports, 15. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-15413-x. See here as well.
Note figure 5: Co-occurrence of endophytic oviposition and Asteronomus maeandriformis in Autunia conferta.
"... We re-examined the controversial feeding trace of Asteronomus maeandriformis
[...] Our results unequivocally show that endophytic feeding behaviour evolved in the holometabolan clade at least by the earliest Permian and, therefore, more than 40 Ma earlier than hypothesised. The findings reveal complex organism interactions in late Palaeozoic ecosystems ..."
See likewise (in German): Fossilien zeugen von ältester Insektenplage der Erdgeschichte (by Claudia Krapp, scinexx.de, September 2025).










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