Edited special issues

X00346667Decombeix A-L & Meyer-Berthaud B. 2022. Honoring Jean Galtier and his contributions to paleobotany. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/review-of-palaeobotany-and-palynology/special-issue/10K3WZP4SBQ  (24 articles)

Ryberg P, Harper CJ. & Decombeix A-L. 2021. Celebrating women in paleobotany: A tribute to Edith L. Taylor. International Journal of Plant Sciences 182 (6): 415-475. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ijps/2021/182/6  (10 articles)

coverDecombeix A-L, Boucher L, Wheeler E A & Baas P. 2019. Plant Hydraulic Architecture through Geological Time. IAWA Journal 40 (3): 381-640. https://brill.com/view/journals/iawa/40/3/iawa.40.issue-3.xml  (9 articles)

Articles (60) & peer-reviewed book chapters (3)

Some postprints and full text versions are here: https://cv.hal.science/anne-laure-decombeix ; Feel free to contact me if you’d like a pdf of a paper but don’t have access

*corresponding author-s;  student (co-)advised during the project; i invited commentaries; p preface/editorial

In progress

  • *Toumoulin A, *Decombeix A-L, Harper CJ, Serbet R. Early Jurassic silicified woods from Carapace Nunatak, South Victoria Land, Antarctica. In revision (minor) for Fossil Record.

— 2022 —

  • p*Decombeix A-L, Meyer-Berthaud B. 2022. A land plant saga: Tribute to Jean Galtier – Introduction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 104680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104680
  • *Decombeix A-L, Harper CJ, Galtier J, Meyer-Berthaud B, Krings M. 2022. Tyloses in fossil plants: New data from an early Carboniferous tree, with a review of previous records. Botany Letters 169 (4): 510-526. https://doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2022.2099461
  • *Laloux B & Decombeix A-L. 2022. Pitus and Eristophyton-type woods in the Tournaisian of northeastern Queensland, Australia: taxonomical, biogeographical and palaeoclimatic implications. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2022 (42): 927-938. https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2022v21a42

— 2021 —

  • *Blanco-Moreno C, Decombeix A-L, Prestianni C. 2021. New insights on the affinities, autoecology, and habit of the Mesozoic fern Weichselia reticulata based on the revision of stems from Bernissart (Mons Basin, Belgium). Papers in Palaeontology 7 (3): 1351-1372. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1344
  • *Decombeix A-L, Escapa IH, De Franceschi D, *Béthoux O. 2021. Reinvestigation of the type specimen of Ginkgophyllum grassetii Saporta 1875 using Reflectance Transforming Imaging. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 104526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104526
  • *Decombeix A-L, Galtier J. 2021. Periderm production in the Mississippian cladoxylopsid Cladoxylon taeniatum and a review of periderm occurrence in Paleozoic plants. International Journal of Plant Sciences 182 (6): 430-444. https://doi.org/10.1086/714284
  • *Decombeix A-L, Durieux T, Harper CJ, Serbet R & Taylor EL. 2021. A Permian nurse log and evidence for facilitation in high-latitude Glossopteris forests. Lethaia 54: 96– 105. https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12386
  • *Meyer-Berthaud B, Decombeix A-L, Blanchard R. 2021. Lycaugea edieae gen. et sp. nov., a late Devonian lycopsid from new South Wales, Australia. International Journal of Plant Sciences 182 (6): 418-429. https://doi.org/10.1086/714350
  • *Meyer-Berthaud B, Decombeix A-L, Girard C, Steemans P, Blanchard R, Champreux A, Evreïnoff M. 2021. A Late Devonian plant assemblage from New South Wales, Australia: Diversity and specificity. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 104535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104535
  • *Rößler R, Decombeix A-L, Galtier J, Neregato R, Niemirowska S, Noll R. 2021. The limits of life revealed in a silicified micro-ecosystem: Sphenophyllum stems, leaves, and roots trapped inside an arthropod boring in a Permian calamitalean. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 302 (1-6): 3-35. https://doi.org/10.1127/palb/2021/0073
  • p*Ryberg PE, Harper CJ, Decombeix A-L. 2021. Celebrating women in paleobotany: A tribute to Edith L Taylor -Introduction and dedication. International Journal of Plant Sciences 182 (6): 415-417. https://doi.org/10.1086/714608

— 2020 —

  • *Champreux A, Meyer-Berthaud B & Decombeix A-L. 2020. Keraphyton gen. nov., a new Late Devonian fern-like plant from Australia. PeerJ 8: e9321. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9321
  • Soreghan GS, Beccaletto L, Benison KC,, Bourquin S, Feulner G, Hamamura N, Hamilton M, Heavens NG, Hinnov L, Huttenlocker A, Looy C, Pfeifer LS, Pochat S, Abadi MS, Zambito J, and the Deep Dust workshop participants. 2020. Report on ICDP Deep Dust workshops: probing continental climate of the late Paleozoic icehouse–greenhouse transition and beyond. Scientific Drilling 28, 93–112, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-28-93-2020

— 2019 —

  • p*Decombeix A-L, Boucher L, Wheeler EA, Baas P. 2019. Preface- Plant Hydraulic Architecture through Geological Time, IAWA Journal 40: 383-386. https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-40190251
  • *Decombeix A-L, Boura A & Tomescu AMF. 2019. Plant hydraulic architecture through time: lessons and questions on the evolution of vascular systems. IAWA Journal 40: 387-420. https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-40190254
  • *Decombeix A-L, Galtier J, McLoughlin S, Meyer-Berthaud B, Webb GE & Blake PR. 2019. Early Carboniferous lignophyte tree diversity in Australia: woods from the Drummond and Yarrol Basins, Queensland. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 263: 47-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.01.009
  • *Tanrattana M, Barczi J-F, Decombeix A-L, Meyer-Berthaud B & Wilson JP. 2019. A new approach for modelling water transport in fossil plants. IAWA Journal 40: 466– 487. https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-40190243
  • *Tanrattana M, Meyer-Berthaud B & Decombeix A-L. 2019. Callixylon wendtii nov., a new species of archaeopteridalean progymnosperm from the Late Devonian of Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 108: 373-385. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691017000457
  • Terreaux de Félice H, *Decombeix A-L & Galtier J. 2019. Anatomy, affinities, and evolutionary implications of new silicified stems of Sphenophyllum from the early Carboniferous (Mississippian) of France and Germany. Geodiversitas 41 (14): 587-599. https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2019v41a14

— 2018 —

  • *Decombeix A-L, Serbet R & Taylor EL. 2018. Under pressure? Epicormic shoots and traumatic growth zones in high-latitude Triassic trees from East Antarctica. Annals of Botany 121: 681-689. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx199
  • *Decombeix A-L & Rowe NP. 2018. Functional significance of cambial development in Vertebraria roots: How do unusual xylem traits serve life at a high latitude? In: Transformative Paleobotany: Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor. M. Krings, C. Harper, N. Cuneo & G. Rothwell (eds), pp. 629-643. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813012-4.00026-7
  • Dambreville A, *Meyer-Berthaud B, Barczi J-F, Decombeix A-L, Griffon S & Rey H. 2018. Using architecture modeling of the Devonian tree Pseudosporochnus to compute its biomass. In: Transformative Paleobotany: Papers to Commemorate the Life and Legacy of Thomas N. Taylor. M. Krings, C. Harper, N. Cuneo & G. Rothwell (eds), pp. 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813012-4.00003-6

— 2017 —

  • *Decombeix A-L & Galtier J. 2017. Ahnetia, a new lignophyte stem from the Lower Carboniferous of southern Algeria. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 237: 62-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.11.003
  • *Decombeix A-L, Letellier D & Meyer-Berthaud B. 2017. Whose roots are these? Linking anatomically preseved roots and stems from the Early Carboniferous of Montagne Noire, France. International Journal of Plant Sciences 178: 42-56. https://doi.org/10.1086/689029
  • Evreïnoff M, *Meyer-Berthaud B, Decombeix A-L, Lebrun R, Steemans P & Tafforeau P. 2017. A new Late Devonian isoetalean lycopsid from New South Wales, Australia: Cymastrobus irvingensis gen. et sp. nov. Paleontologica Electronica 20.3.47A: 1-16. https://doi.org/10.26879/767
  • *Harper CJ, Decombeix A-L, Taylor TN, Taylor EL & Krings M. 2017. Fungal decay in Permian glossopteridalean stem and root wood from Antarctica. IAWA Journal 38: 29-48. https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-20170155

— 2016 —

  • *Decombeix A-L, Taylor EL & Taylor TN. 2016. Bark anatomy of Late Permian glossopterid trees from Antarctica. IAWA Journal 37: 444-458. https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-20160146
  • *Meyer-Berthaud B, Decombeix A-L, Dunstone R, Gerrienne P, Momont N & Young G. 2016. Tetraxylopteris Beck emend. Hammond and Berry (2005), the first aneurophytalean genus recorded in Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 224: 54-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.09.006
  • *Momont N, Decombeix A-L, Gerrienne P & Prestianni C. 2016. New information, including anatomy of the secondary xylem, on the genus Brabantophyton (Stenokoleales) from Ronquières (Middle Devonian, Belgium). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 234: 44-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.08.009
  • *Oh C, Park T-YS, Woo J, Bomfleur B, Philippe M, Decombeix A-L, Kim Y-HG & Lee JI. 2016. Triassic Kykloxylon wood (Umkomasiaceae, Gymnospermopsida) from Skinner Ridge, northern Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 233: 104-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.07.006

— 2015 —

  • *Decombeix A-L, Galtier J & Prestianni C. 2015. The Early Carboniferous progymnosperm Protopitys: new data on vegetative and fertile structures, and on its geographic distribution. Historical Biology 27: 345-354. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2014.905554

— 2014 —

  • *Bomfleur B, Decombeix A-L, Schwendemann AB, Escapa IH, Taylor EL, Taylor TN & McLoughlin S. 2014. Habit and ecology of the Petriellales, an unusual group of seed plants from the Triassic of Gondwana. International Journal of Plant Sciences 175: 1062-1075. https://doi.org/10.1086/678087
  • *Decombeix A-L, Galtier J, Meyer-Berthaud B. 2014. Secondary phloem in Early Carboniferous seed plants: anatomical diversity and evolutionary implications. International Journal of Plant Sciences 175: 891-910. https://doi.org/10.1086/677650
  • *Decombeix A-L, Bomfleur B, Taylor EL & Taylor TN. 2014. New insights into the anatomy, development, and affinities of corystosperm trees from the Triassic of Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 203: 22-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2014.01.002
  • *Gulbranson EL, Ryberg PE, Decombeix A-L, Taylor EL, Taylor TN & Isbell J. 2014. Leaf habit of Late Permian Glossopteris trees from high-paleolatitude forests. Journal of the Geological Society 171: 193-507. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2013-127
  • *Rößler R, Philippe M, van Konijnenburg-van Cittert JHA, McLoughlin S, Sakala J, Zijlstra G and 35 others including Decombeix A-L. 2014. Which name(s) should be used for Araucaria-like fossil wood? – Results of a poll. Taxon 63: 177–184. https://doi.org/10.12705/631.7

— 2013 —

  • *Bomfleur B., Decombeix A-L, Escapa IH, Schwendemann AB, Axsmith B. 2013. Whole-plant concept and environment reconstruction of a Telemachus conifer (Voltziales) from the Triassic of Antarctica. International Journal of Plant Sciences 174: 425-444. https://doi.org/10.1086/668686
  • *Decombeix A-L & Meyer-Berthaud B. 2013. A Callixylon (Archaeopteridales, Progymnosperms) trunk with preserved secondary phloem from the Late Devonian of Morocco. American Journal of Botany 100: 2219-2230. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1300167
  • *Decombeix A-L. 2013. Bark anatomy of an Early Carboniferous tree from Australia. IAWA Journal 34: 183-19. https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-00000016
  • *Meyer-Berthaud B, Decombeix A-L & Ermacora X. 2013. Archaeopterid root anatomy and architecture: new information from permineralized specimens of Famennian age from Anti-Atlas (Morocco). International Journal of Plant Sciences 174: 364-381. https://doi.org/10.1086/668685

— 2012 —

  • *Decombeix A-L, Taylor EL & Taylor TN. 2012. Gymnosperm trees from the Permian of Antarctica: an anatomically preserved trunk of Kaokoxylon sp. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 11: 21-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2011.10.002
  • *Harper CJ, Bomfleur B, Decombeix A-L, Taylor EL, Taylor TN & Krings M. 2012. Tylosis formation and fungal interactions in an Early Jurassic conifer from northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 175: 25-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.02.006
  • i*Meyer-Berthaud B & Decombeix A-L. 2012. In the shade of the oldest forest. Nature: 483: 41-42 [News and Views]. https://doi.org/10.1038/483041a

— 2005-2011 (PhD & postdoc) —

  • *Decombeix A-L, Taylor EL & Taylor TN. 2011. Root suckering in a Triassic conifer from Antarctica: paleoecological and evolutionary implications. American Journal of Botany. 98: 1222-1225. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1100028
  • *Decombeix A-L, Meyer-Berthaud B & Galtier J. 2011. Transitional changes in arborescent lignophytes at the Devonian/Carboniferous boundary. Journal of the Geological Society London 168: 547-557. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492010-074
  • *Decombeix A-L, Meyer-Berthaud B, Galtier J, Talent J & Mawson R. 2011. Diversity of arborescent lignophytes in the Tournaisian vegetation of Queensland (Australia): paleoecological and paleogeographical significance. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 301: 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.12.017
  • *Schwendemann AB, Decombeix A-L, Taylor TN, Taylor EL & Krings M. 2011. Morphological and functional stasis in mycorrhizal root nodules as exhibited by a Triassic conifer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 108: 13630-13634. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1110677108
  • *Decombeix A-L, Taylor EL & Taylor TN. 2010. Anatomy and affinities of permineralized gymnospermous trunks with preserved bark from the Middle Triassic of Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 163: 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.09.002
  • *Decombeix A-L, Taylor EL & Taylor TN. 2010. Epicormic shoots in a Permian gymnosperm from Antarctica. International Journal of Plant Sciences 171: 772-782. https://doi.org/10.1086/654849
  • *Decombeix A-L, Klavins SD, Taylor EL & Taylor TN. 2010. Seed plant diversity in the Triassic of Antarctica: a new anatomically preserved ovule from the Fremouw Formation. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 158: 272-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.09.008
  • i*Decombeix A-L. 2010. Understanding the biology of high-latitude trees in a greenhouse world. PALAIOS 25: 223-225 [Spotlight]. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2010.s04
  • *Escapa IH, Decombeix A-L, Taylor TN & Taylor EL. 2010. Evolution and relationships of the conifer Telemachus: evidence from the Triassic of Antarctica. International Journal of Plant Sciences 171:560-573. https://doi.org/10.1086/651948
  • *Krings M, Taylor TN, Dotzler N & Decombeix A-L. 2010. Galtierella biscalithecae nov. gen. et sp., a Late Pennsylvanian endophytic water mold (Peronosporomycetes) from France. Comptes Rendus Palevol 9: 5-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2009.10.002
  • *Meyer-Berthaud B, Soria A & Decombeix A-L. 2010. The land plant cover in the Devonian: a reassessment of the evolution of the tree habit. In “The terrestrialization process: Modelling complex interactions at the biosphere-geosphere interface”, M. Vecoli, G. Clément, B. Meyer-Berthaud (eds). Geol. Soc. London Spe. Pub. 339: 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp339.6
  • *Prestianni C, Decombeix A-L, Thorez J, Fokand D & Gerrienne P. 2010. Famennian charcoal of Belgium. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 291:60-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.10.008
  • *Schwendemann AB, Decombeix A-L, Taylor TN & Taylor EL. 2010. Collinsonites schopfii gen. et sp. nov., an herbaceous lycopsid from the Late Permian of Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 158: 291-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2009.09.010
  • *Taylor TN, Taylor EL, Decombeix A-L, Schwendemann AB, Serbet R, Escapa IH & Krings M. 2010. The enigmatic Devonian fossil Prototaxites is not a rolled-up liverwort mat: Comment on the paper by Graham et al., 2010 (AJB 97: 268-275). American Journal of Botany. 97: 1074-1078. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1000047
  • *Decombeix A-L, Taylor EL, & Taylor TN. 2009. Secondary growth in Vertebraria roots from the Late Permian of Antarctica: a change in developmental timing. International Journal of Plant Sciences 170:644-656. https://doi.org/10.1086/597784
  • *Meyer-Berthaud B & Decombeix A-L. 2009. Evolution of first trees: the Devonian strategies. Comptes Rendus Palevol 8: 155-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2008.08.002
  • *Decombeix A-L, Meyer-Berthaud B & Galtier J. 2008. Diversity of Mississippian arborescent lignophytes : a new species of Eristophyton from the middle Tournaisian of France. International Journal of Plant Sciences 169: 1116-1127. https://doi.org/10.1086/590455
  • *Decombeix A-L, Meyer-Berthaud B & Galtier J. 2007. A review of the genus Eristophyton, with special focus on the Mississippian species. Comptes Rendus Palevol 6: 393-401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2007.09.011
  • i*Meyer-Berthaud B & Decombeix A-L. 2007. A tree without leaves. Nature [News and Views] 446: 861-862. https://doi.org/10.1038/446861a
  • *Decombeix A-L, Galtier J & Meyer-Berthaud B. 2006. Faironia difasciculata, a new gymnosperm from the Early Carboniferous of the Montagne Noire (France). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 142: 79-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.03.020
  • *Decombeix A-L, Meyer-Berthaud B, Rowe N & Galtier J. 2005. Diversity of large woody lignophytes preceding the extinction of Archaeopteris: new data from the middle Tournaisian of Thuringia (Germany). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 137: 69-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2005.08.006

Textbook

Tortosa T, Adnet S, Amiot R, Claude J, Clausen S, Decombeix A-L, Fernandez V, Métais G, Meyer-Berthaud B, Muller S, Senut B. 2013. Principes de Paléontologie. Coll. Sciences Sup, Dunod, Paris. 336 p. [link]