Fern-like Plants Establishing the Understory of the Late Devonian Xinhang Lycopsid Forest.

Jiangnan Yang, Deming Wang, Le Liu, Yi Zhou

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Richness and biogeography of Pteridoflora in montane forests of eastern Mexico.PloS one · 2026
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4 authors.

Jiangnan YangKey Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Department of Geology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5232-5611

Deming WangKey Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Department of Geology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

Le LiuSchool of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9099-6029

Yi ZhouSchool of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 42072016

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Forests appeared during the Middle to Late Devonian, but Devonian forests and their compositions are still rarely known. Xinhang forest was reported as the largest Devonian forest, with lycopsid trees of

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fern-like plantsLate Devonianprocumbent stemsrootsXinhang forestXinhangia

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PMID38792623

DOI10.3390/life14050602

PMCPMC11121898

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