How plants have shaped Earth surface feedbacks over geologic time is a key question in botanical and geological inquiry. Recent work has suggested that biomes during the Carboniferous Period contained plants with extraordinary physiological capacity to shape their environment, contradicting the previously dominant view that plants only began to actively moderate the Earth's surface with the rise of angiosperms during the Mesozoic Era. A recently published Viewpoint disputes this recent work, thus here, we document in detail, the mechanistic underpinnings of our modeling and illustrate the extraordinary ecophysiological nature of Carboniferous plants.

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石炭纪植物生理学打破了霉菌。

植物如何在地质时间内塑造地球表面的反馈，是植物学和地质学研究中的关键问题。最近的工作表明，石炭纪时期的生物群落包含具有非凡生理能力的植物，可以塑造环境，这与以前的主流观点相反，即中生代时期，植物只是随着被子植物的出现才开始活跃地调节地球表面。最近发表的《观点》对此工作提出了异议，因此，在这里，我们详细记录了我们建模的机械基础，并说明了石炭纪植物的非凡生态生理特性。