Pteridology in perspective
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This article is published in American Fern Journal.The article was published on 1997-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 131 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Perspective (graphical).read more
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A classification for extant ferns
Alan R. Smith,Kathleen M. Pryer,Eric Schuettpelz,Petra Korall,Petra Korall,Harald Schneider,Paul G. Wolf +6 more
TL;DR: A revised classification for extant ferns is presented, with emphasis on ordinal and familial ranks, and a synopsis of included genera is provided, reflecting recently published phylogenetic hypotheses based on both morphological and molecular data.
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Ferns diversified in the shadow of angiosperms
Harald Schneider,Eric Schuettpelz,Kathleen M. Pryer,Raymond Cranfill,Susana Magallón,Richard Lupia +5 more
TL;DR: It is shown that polypod ferns (> 80% of living fern species) diversified in the Cretaceous, after angiosperms, suggesting perhaps an ecological opportunistic response to the diversification of angios perms, as angiosPerms came to dominate terrestrial ecosystems.
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Horsetails and ferns are a monophyletic group and the closest living relatives to seed plants.
Kathleen M. Pryer,Harald Schneider,Alan R. Smith,Raymond Cranfill,Paul G. Wolf,Jeffrey S. Hunt,S. D. Sipes +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that there are three monophyletic groups of extant vascular plants: (1) lycophytes, (2) seed plants and (3) a clade including equisetophytes (horsetails, psilotophytes) and all eusporangiate and leptosporangiates ferns.
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The Pre-Quaternary history of fire
TL;DR: Charcoal has been widely reported from Tertiary sediments and its appearance in the Quaternary and Recent is not solely as a result of human impact, but this interpretation is questionable as discussed by the authors.
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The potential negative impacts of global climate change on tropical montane cloud forests
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed previous cloud forest species redistributions in the paleo-record in light of the coming climate changes and concluded that climate change is very likely to upset the current dynamic equilibrium of the cloud forest, which will include biodiversity loss, altitude shifts in species' ranges and subsequent community reshuffling.