Palaeobotany: In the shade of the oldest forest.

Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud (1) , Anne-Laure Decombeix (1)

1 UMR AMAP - Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations

The uncovering of a large soil surface preserved under sediment for 390 million years has exposed plant remains which show that the world's earliest forests were much more complex than previously thought

Mots clés: Ancient forest; Middle Devonian; Palaeobotany; Plant evolution; Forest fossil

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement; Biodiversité

Brigitte Meyer-Berthaud, Anne-Laure Decombeix. Palaeobotany: In the shade of the oldest forest.. Nature, 2012, 483 (7387), pp.41-2. ⟨10.1038/483041a⟩. ⟨halsde-00695251⟩