The vegetation of Antarctica through geological time

1. Historical background and geological framework

2. Early and middle Paleozoic climates and colonisation of the land

3. Collapsing ice sheets and evolving polar forests of the middle to late Paleozoic

4. Icehouse to hothouse : floral turnover, the Permian-Triassic crisis and Triassic vegetation

5. Gondwana break-up and landscape change across the Triassic-Jurassic transition and beyond

6. Fern-conifer dominated early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) ecosystems and the angiosperm invasion

7. The origin of southern temperate ecosystems

8. The heat is on: Paleogene floras and the Paleocene-Eocene warm period

9. After the heat: late Eocene to Pliocene climatic cooling and modification of the Antarctic.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Colonization of the land; 3. Deglaciation and colonization of the South Pole; 4. Mass extinction and life in the Triassic; 5. Continental break up and its impact on Jurassic vegetation; 6. Fern-conifer dominated lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) ecosystems and the angiosperm invasion; 7. The origin of southern temperate ecosystems; 8. The heat is on: Paleogene floras and the Paleocene-Eocene warm period; 9. After the heat: late Eocene to Pliocene climatic cooling and modification of the Antarctic vegetation; Index.