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... and by the massive expansion of tree ferns following the terminal 151 Westphalian extinctions. Tree ferns were cheaply constructed; had massive reproductive output, causing vast overrepresentation in the miospore record (Willard, 19931; produced small and widely dispersed isospores capable of founding a population from one spore; and underwent a major radiation in coal swamps and elastic lowlands during the late Westphalian and Stephanian.
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  • late carboniferous
  • coal swamps
  • tree ferns
  • life histories
  • species replacement

  • late westphalian
  • species turnover
  • stephanian coal
  • biotic interactions
  • earth history

  • pennsylvanian coal
  • tree fern
  • time intervals
  • reproductive output


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