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In the shade of the oldest forest

The uncovering of a large soil surface preserved under sediment for 390 million years has exposed plant remains which show that the world's earliest forests were much more complex than previously thought. See Letter p.78

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Figure 1: Plant complexity in ancient forests.

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Meyer-Berthaud, B., Decombeix, AL. In the shade of the oldest forest. Nature 483, 41–42 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/483041a

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