The origin and early evolution of plants on land
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The earliest ancestor of land plants is currently understood to have been a form of freshwater, terrestrial algae.
“The earliest ancestor of land plants is currently understood to have been a form of freshwater, terrestrial algae (Kenrick and Crane, 1997; Del-Bem, 2018).”
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- Authors
- Kenrick, P., & Crane, P. R.
- Affiliations
- Swedish Museum of Natural History (SE)
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 1997-09
- Volume
- 389
- Issue
- 6646
- Pages
- 33-39
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1663995113
- Cited by
- 1,466
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 31 · 2025: 57 · 2024: 65 · 2023: 71 · 2022: 59 · 2021: 99 · 2020: 90 · 2019: 79 · 2018: 75 · 2017: 83 · 2016: 71 · 2015: 50 · 2014: 57 · 2013: 62 · 2012: 46
- FWCI
- 29.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Keywords
- land plant origin, Paleozoic, land colonization, plant systematics, paleobotany, history of life, terrestrial ecosystems
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