Early life on land and the first terrestrial ecosystems
@article{BeraldiCampesi2013EarlyLO, title={Early life on land and the first terrestrial ecosystems}, author={H. Beraldi-Campesi}, journal={Ecological Processes}, year={2013}, volume={2}, pages={1-17} }
Terrestrial ecosystems have been largely regarded as plant-dominated land surfaces, with the earliest records appearing in the early Phanerozoic (<550 Ma). Yet the presence of biological components in pre-Phanerozoic rocks, in habitats as different as soils, peats, ponds, lakes, streams, and dune fields, implies a much earlier type of terrestrial ecosystems. Microbes were abundant by ~3,500 Ma ago and surely adapted to live in subaerial conditions in coastal and inland environments, as they do… CONTINUE READING
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