Institute of Deep Time Terrestrial Ecology, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China. Institute of Karst Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Guilin 541004, China.
Curr Biol. 2017 Sep 11;27(17):R905-R909. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.041.
Land plants are one of the major constituents of terrestrial ecosystems on Earth, and play an irreplaceable role in human activities today. If we are to understand the extant plants, it is imperative that we have some understanding of the fossil plants from the deep geological past, particularly those that occurred during their early evolutionary history, in the late Palaeozoic.
陆地植物是地球上陆地生态系统的主要组成部分之一，在当今人类活动中发挥着不可替代的作用。如果我们要了解现存的植物，就必须对地质历史上的古植物有一定的了解，特别是那些在晚古生代发生的早期进化历史中的古植物。
