The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

By E. Edwards, C. Osborne, C. Strömberg, Stephen A. Smith. Science, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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Phylogenetic scale in ecology and evolution (2016, background): “In contrast, recent radiations within grasses and rodents have had a large geographical footprint but encompass only a few relatively young clades (Edwards et al., 2010).”
Global angiosperm family richness revisited: linking ecology and evolution to climate (2011, background): “The complexity of this process is illustrated by the rise of ecological dominance of C4 grasses in the lower latitudes (Edwards et al., 2010).”
The Importance of Honey Consumption in Human Evolution (2011, background): “Grasslands using a C4 photosynthetic pathway (versus the more common C3 pathway for most flowering plants) began radically changing the biosphere around 3–8 mya (Cerling 1992; Edwards et al. 2010).”
Mechanisms of Plant Invasions of North American and European Grasslands (2011, background): “The central portion of North America (the Great Plains) and portions of the Southwest of North America are summer-wet ecosystems whose temperature regime allows for historical dominance by grasses with the C4 photosynthetic pathway (Edwards et al. 2010).”
New insight from old bones: stable isotope analysis of fossil mammals (2012, background): “…grasslands where C4 grasses are the dominant grass type today, d13C values of herbivore enamel record a dramatic increase in consumption of C4 grasses during the late Miocene (protracted rise from 8 3 106 to 3 3 106 years ago—Cerling et al. 1997; Edwards et al. 2010; Tipple and Pagani 2007).”
When can positive interactions cause alternative stable states in ecosystems (2016, background): “An even more rapid change of global vegetation was invoked by the evolution of C4 grasses that rapidly concurred large parts of the Earth during the Miocene and Pliocene (3–8 million years ago) (Edwards et al. 2010).”
Climatic stability in the Brazilian Cerrado: implications for biogeographical connections of South American savannas, species richness and conservation in a biodiversity hotspot (2012, background): “, 2009), a timing largely coincident with the worldwide expansion of C4 grass-dominated savannas that took place from 8 to 3 Ma (Edwards et al., 2010; Ratnam et al., 2011).”
Extracting the most from terrestrial plant-derived n-alkyl lipids and their carbon isotopes from the sedimentary record: A review (2017, background): “This information is helpful for paleoenvironmental reconstruction for the Miocene through the late Quaternary (Freeman and Colarusso, 2001; Zech et al., 2012; Magill et al., 2013; Uno et al., 2016a,b).”
Grass diversification in Madagascar: In situ radiation of two large C3 shade clades and support for a Miocene to Pliocene origin of C4 grassy biomes (2018, background): “Dotted lines mark geological epoch boundaries; the dashed line at 8 Ma marks the approximate beginning of the global Miocene grassland expansion (MGE; Edwards et al., 2010).”