The main mineable coal bed, the No. 6 coal seam, was formed during the drying terrestrial delta deposition environment of the late Carboniferous period (Mao and Xu 1999).
The dynamics of radiative energy partitioning on drying terrestrial surfaces reflects the strong coupling between evaporation and surface temperature that shapes latent and sensible heat fluxes.
This trend was observed across the Tetanocerini by Vala and Gasc [ 38], who found a series of reductions in the same breathing-related characters as lineages moved from aquatic to shoreline to drier terrestrial habitats.
Our hypothesized conceptual model relates to terrestrial riparian vegetation that germinates, grows, and/or reproduces on dry to saturated or flooded soils, including the plant functional groups of terrestrial-dry, terrestrial-damp, and emergent species (Casanova and Brock 2000).
Three types of litterbags were prepared with: i. Phragmites australis dry leaves (terrestrial input); ii.
In Europe, coastal vegetation presents lower diversity values when compared with other world regions (Mucina 2013) but European dry coastal terrestrial habitats, which include maritime rocks, sea-cliffs and coastal slopes, show higher values in terms of plant diversity (van der Maarel 1993; van der Maarel and van der Maarel-Versluys 1996).
In fact, some of the studies I'm planning right now focus on the impacts of stream drying on terrestrial species that live near streams.
Given this evolutionary scenario, it is easy to imagine how the ancestors of dry-land terrestrial snail-feeding lineages like Trypetoptera Tetanocera phyllophora and T. kerteszi used the shoreline as a stepping-stone environment facilitating a gradual movement to dry-land habitats where they became generalist predators of land snails.
In addition to expressing historically-contingent socio-political relationships, it is argued that these networks formed part of a range of socio-economic risk-buffering strategies to offset the dry season impoverished terrestrial resource base (plant foods and drinking water) of reef islands.
Other hypotheses suggest that the warming and drying of the terrestrial environments during the Permian Period reduced the amount of organic matter buried in sediments as coal or petroleum, shifting the amount of organically fixed carbon dioxide that was recycled through the atmosphere.
