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| Topic Started: May 5 2010, 01:53 AM (641 Views) | |
| Pando | May 5 2010, 01:53 AM Post #1 |
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Can someone help me with the flora of the Postozoic? Cause I'm dangerously inexperienced in the field of plants, and have no idea what kind of plants the future can hold. Also, it doesn't have to be plants, it can be anything that photosynthesize. |
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| MitchBeard | May 5 2010, 02:12 AM Post #2 |
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I could probably do some plant stuff. Seeing as I worked in a nursery for a couple of years, have done 2 botany courses and was considering doing forestry as my second major. But I probably couldn't do much outside of Australia to be honest... How much do you need? I've got a few other things that I should probably finish before I start a new project though. |
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| Pando | May 5 2010, 02:18 AM Post #3 |
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For 25 MYF don't need help as it is basically just grassland and rain forest, for 90 MYF mostly grassland with Mediterranean type forest instead of the rain forests at the tropics (by grassland savannas also count). What I need help with is 120 and 200 MYF. I'm thinking that if the Spore plants survive they would thrive more as the entire world is humid and flooded in 120 MYF and the coasts are humid with 400 inches of rain a year (got it from TFIW, while I don't trust its animals I trust its geology) in 200 MYF. |
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| MitchBeard | May 5 2010, 02:22 AM Post #4 |
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I'll see what I can do. Don't expect anything for a while though. My workload for uni is piling up and I have two things outside of that that I should probably get done first. I can definitely get it done at some point though, even if I don't like projects very much. |
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| Pando | May 5 2010, 10:50 AM Post #5 |
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I don't need you to make species, just to help with how the flora will be in 120 and 200 MYF. |
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| Ook | May 5 2010, 11:08 AM Post #6 |
not a Transhuman
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angiosperms dominate |
   
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| Pando | May 5 2010, 11:11 AM Post #7 |
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Why? They won't have that much of an advantage against the Spore plants, since there is more water available for them to be able to have water for fertilization. |
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| Ook | May 5 2010, 11:19 AM Post #8 |
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spore plants are more primitive and they golden age is gone.Imagine that plants as our world...angiosperms dominate,but there is lot of conifers and primitive ferns...i dont know why do you want carboniferous or mesozoic like plant in fact that there is better adapted plants |
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| MitchBeard | May 5 2010, 06:13 PM Post #9 |
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The only thing they are better adapted for is reproducing bexi  If all the pollinators went extinct then most angiosperms would be in quite a bit of trouble. I reckon where its at will be more like Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae, CAM and C4 plants dominating. Probably less the last two in the swampy environments though. Edited by MitchBeard, May 5 2010, 06:15 PM.
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| Ook | May 7 2010, 06:27 AM Post #10 |
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you think that almolst all Hymenoptera insects can go extinct :D...this project goes be more interesting,i dont know why almost all projects need have got animals and plants,that looks like extinct prehistoric organisms...theropod like mammals,pteranodon like bats and strange retake of spore plants.. orchids,because is one of the youngest plants,could have got golden age i agree with that fabaceae and asteraceae...but grasses too Edited by Ook, May 7 2010, 06:28 AM.
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| MitchBeard | May 7 2010, 06:32 AM Post #11 |
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Insect diversity in general would take a massive nosedive. Lepidoptera would go VERY close to completely extinct. To be honest, orchids are mostly so incredible diverse because they interact in such intimate complex ways. This means that both speciate really readily. Figs are very specious too because they interact so intimately with their wasp pollinators. Most orchids today occupy very similar niche spaces. |
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| Ook | May 7 2010, 06:46 AM Post #12 |
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so another polinators will evolve...first flowering plants were polinated by bugs |
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| MitchBeard | May 7 2010, 09:02 AM Post #13 |
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Ah sorry. Those two statements were completely unrelated The first bit was talking about "if angiosperms went extinct" and the second was talking about the golden age of orchids. Though, a second coming of lycopodiophyta would be rather cool. If unlikely. |
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