title: Evolution: the making of ediacaran giants.
abstract: Some of the enigmatic Precambrian organisms in the Ediacaran Period grew large and stood tall above the seafloor. Canopy flow modeling suggests that their large size was optimized for access to flow in order to facilitate osmotrophic nutrient uptake in low-flow environments.
authors: Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. Electronic address: xiao@vt.edu.
authors: Shuhai
authors: S
authors: Xiao
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000502:physiology*