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Flowers empower ferns
Email: Stuart Blackman - stuart.blackman@talk21.com News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040401-02
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The explosion in the number of flowering plant (angiosperm) species during the Cretaceous is credited with causing a dramatic decline in other vascular plant groups such as horsetails, cycads, and ferns. But new research published this week in Nature suggests that fern diversity underwent a renaissance following the rise of angiosperms and that the appearance of angiosperm forests triggered this revitalization.
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