Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) was a climate shift from a largely ice-free
greenhouse world to an icehouse climate, involving the first major glaciation of Antarctica …

Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change yields Charney
(fast-feedback) equilibrium climate sensitivity 1.2±0.3° C (2σ) per W/m2, which is 4.8° C±1.2° …

The geological record encodes the relationship between climate and atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) over long and short timescales, as well as potential drivers of evolutionary …

Much of our understanding of Earth's past climate comes from the measurement of oxygen
and carbon isotope variations in deep-sea benthic foraminifera. Yet, long intervals in …

The limits for stomatal conductance are set by stomatal size (SS) and density (SD). An
inverse relationship between SS and SD has been observed in fossil and living plants. This …

Stomata are central players in the hydrological and carbon cycles, regulating the uptake of
carbon dioxide (CO 2) for photosynthesis and transpirative loss of water (H 2 O) between …

During the early to middle Eocene, a mid‐to‐high latitudinal position and enhanced
hydrological cycle in Australia would have contributed to a wetter and “greener” Australian …

The Arctic forests of the Eocene, which thrived under elevated CO2, a temperate climate,
high precipitation and annually extremely different daylengths, represent a quite spectacular …

The evolutionary transition to powered flight remains controversial in bats, the only flying
mammals. We applied aerodynamic modeling to reconstruct flight in the oldest complete …