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Christopher J. Cleal

Christopher J. Cleal

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Earth Science

D-Index
41
Citations
5625
World Ranking
5605
National Ranking
600

Overview

Christopher J. Cleal is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the study of ancient plant diversity, paleontology, and geological sciences, with a significant emphasis on vascular plant macrofossils and the evolutionary history of land plants.

The scientist's contributions span multiple fields, including:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, Cleal's work further specializes in several subfields such as:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Paleontology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology

The main topics that their research covers are:

  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Fern and Epiphyte Biology

Christopher J. Cleal has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • The Silurian-Devonian terrestrial revolution: Diversity patterns and sampling bias of the vascular plant macrofossil record, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 1: How well can we identify past plant diversity in the fossil record?, 2021, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Carboniferous macrofloral biostratigraphy: an overview, 2020, Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Major Early-Middle Devonian oceanic oxygenation linked to early land plant evolution detected using high-resolution U isotopes of marine limestones, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • The History of Herbivory on Sphenophytes: A New Calamitalean with an Insect Gall from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Portugal and a Review of Arthropod Herbivory on an Ancient Lineage, 2020, International Journal of Plant Sciences

The researcher frequently collaborates with other scientists, including:

  • Borja Cascales-Miñana
  • Barry A. Thomas
  • Zbynĕk Šimůnek
  • Heather S. Pardoe
  • Christine Strullu-Derrien

Publication venues frequently featuring their work are:

  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Taxon
  • Fossil Imprint
  • Botany Letters

Best Publications

  • Palaeozoic tropical rainforests and their effect on global climates: is the past the key to the present?

    Christopher J. Cleal;Barry A. Thomas

  • The Late Palaeozoic relations between Gondwana and Laurussia

    W. S. McKerrow;C. Mac Niocaill;P. E. Ahlberg;G. Clayton

  • The relationship between Euramerican and Cathaysian tropical floras in the Late Palaeozoic: Palaeobiogeographical and palaeogeographical implications

    Jason Hilton;Chris J. Cleal

  • Brief history of the gymnosperms: classification, biodiversity, phytogeography and ecology

    John M. Anderson;Heidi M. Anderson;Chris J. Cleal

  • A review of the Middle–Late Pennsylvanian west European regional substages and floral biozones, and their correlation to the Geological Time Scale based on new U–Pb ages

    Stanislav Opluštil;Mark Schmitz;Christopher J. Cleal;Karel Martínek

  • A revised correlation of Carboniferous rocks in the British Isles

    C. N. Waters;I. D. Somerville;N. S. Jones;C. J. Cleal

  • The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events

    Borja Cascales-Miñana;Christopher J. Cleal

  • Late Moscovian terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments of Variscan Euramerica

    C.J. Cleal;S. Opluštil;B.A. Thomas;Y. Tenchov

  • A comparative analysis of some Late Carboniferous basins of Variscan Europe

    Stanislav Opluštil;Christopher J. Cleal

  • Plant biodiversity changes in Carboniferous tropical wetlands

    C. J. Cleal;D. Uhl;B. Cascales-Miñana;B. A. Thomas

  • Composition and dynamics of the great Phanerozoic Evolutionary Floras

    Christopher J. Cleal;Christopher J. Cleal;Borja Cascales-Miñana;Borja Cascales-Miñana

  • Lower Jurassic floras from Hope Bay and Botany Bay, Antarctica

    P.M. Rees;C.J. Cleal

  • Paleoecology of Early Pennsylvanian vegetation on a seasonally dry tropical landscape (Tynemouth Creek Formation, New Brunswick, Canada)

    Arden R. Bashforth;Arden R. Bashforth;Arden R. Bashforth;Christopher J. Cleal;Martin R. Gibling;Howard J. Falcon-Lang

  • Epidermal structure of some medullosan Neuropteris foliage from the middle and upper Carboniferous of Canada and Germany

    Christopher J Cleal;Erwin L Zodrow

  • A revised taxonomy for palaeozoic neuropterid foliage

    Christopher J. Cleal;Cedric H. Shute;Erwin L. Zodrow

  • Plant fossils in geological investigation : the palaeozoic

    Christopher J. Cleal

  • Phyto- and chronostratigraphical correlations between the late Pennsylvanian Morien Group (Sydney, Nova Scotia) and the Silesian Pennant Measures (south Wales)

    Erwin L. Zodrow;Chris J. Cleal

  • Botanical Nomenclature and Plant Fossils

    Christopher J. Cleal;Barry A. Thomas

  • The Westphalian–Stephanian macrofloral record from the South Wales Coalfield, UK

    Christopher J. Cleal

  • The Middle Jurassic flora from Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, UK

    C. J. Cleal;P. M. Rees

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard J. Falcon-Lang
Howard J. Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway University of London
Jason Hilton
Jason Hilton University of Birmingham
Thomas Servais
Thomas Servais University of Lille
Dieter Uhl
Dieter Uhl University of Tübingen
Maria Mastalerz
Maria Mastalerz Indiana University
Colin N. Waters
Colin N. Waters University of Leicester
Charles H. Wellman
Charles H. Wellman University of Sheffield
David J. Cantrill
David J. Cantrill Royal Botanic Gardens
Jennifer C. McElwain
Jennifer C. McElwain Trinity College Dublin
Patrick S. Herendeen
Patrick S. Herendeen George Washington University

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