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Organisation profile
Organisation profile
The study of fossil plants in the Department of Earth Sciences involves interdisciplinary research with several areas of geology, biology and chemistry. Current major fields of research interest include:
• The history and impact of fire
• Terrestrial palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimate proxies
• Molecular palaeobiology
• Events at the Cretaceous-Tertiary, Palaeocene/Eocene and Eocene/Oligocene boundaries
• The evolutionary interaction of animals and plants
• Ecology and evolution of Carboniferous vegetation
• Evolution of Tertiary terrestrial ecosystems
• Palynology and palynofacies as palaeoenvironmental indicators
• Land plants as sources of oil and coal and the evolution of coal-forming vegetation
• Entombment of vegetation by pyroclastic flows
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Profiles
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Margaret Collinson
- Department of Earth Sciences - Professor of Plant Palaeobiology
- Plant Palaeobiology Research Group
Person: Academic Contact, Staff - Academic staff
Research output
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A tale of two morphs: developmental patterns and mechanisms of seed coat differentiation in the dimorphic diaspore model Aethionema arabicum (Brassicaceae)
Arshad, W., Lenser, T., Wilhelmsson, P., Chandler, J., Steinbrecher, T., Marone, F., Perez Suarez, M., Collinson, M., Stuppy, W., Rensing, S., Theißen, G. & Leubner-Metzger, G., Jul 2021, In: Plant Journal. 107, 1, p. 166-181 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Climate–vegetation models bring fossil forests back to life
Falcon-Lang, H., 2 Nov 2021, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 4, e2116733118.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The environmental implications of upper Paleozoic plant-fossil assemblages with mixtures of wetland and drought-tolerant taxa in tropical Pangea
Bashforth, A. R., Dimichele, W. A., Eble, C. F., Falcon-Lang, H., Looy, C. V. & Lucas, S. G., 12 May 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geobios.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile92 Downloads (Pure)
Projects
- 6 Finished
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A tale of two morphs: bet-hedging survival strategies in the Brassicaceae as adaptations in unpredictable environments
Steinbrecher, T. (PI), Arshad, W. (PI), Collinson, M. (PI) & Leubner, G. (PI)
5/09/18 → 7/09/18
Project: Research
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Testing a Hypothesis of Latest Pleistocene Paleo-environmental Collapse, Northern Channel Islands, California
Scott, A. C. & Pinter, N.
1/07/10 → 31/03/11
Project: Research
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Pyrogeography – evolution and diversification of fire on Earth
Bowman, D. M. J. S. & Scott, A. C.
1/04/10 → 31/05/11
Project: Research