Chapter 16
Climbing plants in the fossil record: Paleozoic to present
Book Editor(s):Stefan A. Schnitzer,
Frans Bongers,
Robyn J. Burnham,
Francis E. Putz,
Frans Bongers
Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
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This chapter presents a review of the quality and preservation of lianas in the fossil record and the importance of the major lineages of lianas over time using published occurrence data based on the fossil record. The Fossil Record of Climbers (FRC) database consists of individual fossil records of species, each occurrence from a limited geographic area. Parallel to the occurrence-based record, the chapter analyzes the temporal record of species richness as represented by a single count of a species occurrence for each time period. This updated analysis of the fossil record demonstrates that climbing was an early innovation among land plants, and that it was achieved by many, but not all, land plant lineages. The chapter presents a summary of the current FRC database, including 40% more fossil plant records than were listed in 2009. Finally, it provides fossil occurrence records of climbing plants.
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