Vegetation Turnovers Reduced Water Availability During the Last Icehouse

Document Type

Journal Article

Journal Title

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volume

34

Issue

9

Publication Date

9-2025

Abstract

Dry-adapted plants likely created environments that promoted their success during the LPIA, whereby continued water use under dry conditions further dried soils and limited the abundance of drought-sensitive plants, thereby constituting an eco-evolutionary feedback. The representation of interacting plant traits in this palaeo-ecosystem modelling framework, increasingly representing whole plants, opens pathways to studying ecosystems dominated by extinct, non-analogue plants. Expanding application of the fossil record may improve our understanding of vegetation impacts on the terrestrial environment across deep time.

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