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1. Atmospheric CO2 & Leaf Evolution
2. Polar Forests - Carbon Balance
3. Polar Forests - Distribution
and Ecology
4. Biogenic Trace Gas Fluxes
5. The Evolution of C4 Plants
6. Palaeoceanographic changes
7. Biodiversity Response to Climate
Change
8. Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis
9. Terminal Cretaceous Climate Change
10. C4 phylogenetic history
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1.
Atmospheric CO2 - the key to early leaf evolution
Personnel: Professor D.J.
Beerling , Professor W.G. Chaloner, Dr. B. Lomax, Dr.
C. Osborne
2.
The carbon balance of ancient polar forests: determining the
roles of leaf habit and atmospheric CO2
Personnel: Professor
D.J. Beerling , Dr L. Lorens, Dr.
C. Osborne , Dr D.L. Royer
3.
Understanding the distribution and ecology of ancient polar
forests and their influence on climate
Personnel: Professor
D.J. Beerling , Professor
J.E. Francis , Dr S. Brentnall, Melise Harland, Dr
C.P. Osborne , Professor P.J. Valdes
4.
Biogenic trace gas fluxes and the chemistry of the palaeoatmosphere
Personnel: Professor D.J.
Beerling , Professor P.J. Valdes
5.
The Evolution of C4 Plants
Personnel: Dr C. Osborne
6.
Palaeoceanographic changes during the Late Devonian Mass Extinction
Personnel: Dave Bond, Dr
P. Wignall, Greg Racki, Jared Morrow, Jeff Over
7.
Biodiversity response to climate change: Biodiversity and
climate significance of Eocene forest communities of Antarctica.
Personnel: Professor J.E.
Francis , Dr David Cantrill, Dr Anne-Marie Tosolini
8.
Mechanisms Driving the Evolution and Breakdown of C4
Photosynthesis
Personnel: Dr. Colin Osborne ,
Emily Wythe
9.
Terminal Cretaceous climate change and biotic response in
Antarctica
Personnel: Professor J.E.
Francis , Dr D. Pirrie, Dr J. Riding, Professor R. Raiswell,
Dr A. Haywood, Dr V. Thorn, Stephen Hunter
10.
Drought responses of C4 plants: resolving the effects of physiological pathway from phylogenetic history
Personnel: Sam Taylor, Stephen Hulme, Josie Welsh.