Plant-Arthropod interactions in the Late Palaeozoic

Since the first land plants in the Ordovician appeared preconditions for terrestrial animal life were given. As a consequence in the Devonian and Carboniferous the first forests in earth history evolved housing already a number of early arthropods, e.g. insects such as cockroaches, Protodonata with wingspans up to 70 cm or giant arthropods such as Arthropleura, which could be up to 2.50 m long. The project focuses on the rarely investigated paleoecological interactions between plants and arthropods in the Late Palaeozoic (cooperation with Corinna Hoff, Halle/Saale).