Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras

RG Stockey, DB Cole, UC Farrell, H Agić, TH Boag… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
A geologically rapid Neoproterozoic oxygenation event is commonly linked to the
appearance of marine animal groups in the fossil record. However, there is still debate about …

Aquatic deoxygenation as a planetary boundary and key regulator of Earth system stability

KC Rose, EM Ferrer, SR Carpenter, SA Crowe… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Planetary boundaries represent thresholds in major Earth system processes that are
sensitive to human activity and control global-scale habitability and stability. These …

Environmental drivers of the first major animal extinction across the Ediacaran White Sea-Nama transition

SD Evans, C Tu, A Rizzo, RL Surprenant… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
The Ediacara Biota—the oldest communities of complex, macroscopic fossils—consists of
three temporally distinct assemblages: the Avalon (ca. 575–560 Ma), White Sea (ca. 560 …

Climate change is an important predictor of extinction risk on macroevolutionary timescales

CM Malanoski, A Farnsworth, DJ Lunt, PJ Valdes… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Anthropogenic climate change is increasing rapidly and already impacting biodiversity.
Despite its importance in future projections, understanding of the underlying mechanisms by …

Continental flood basalts drive Phanerozoic extinctions

T Green, PR Renne, CB Keller - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Refinements of the geological timescale driven by the increasing precision and accuracy of
radiometric dating have revealed an apparent correlation between large igneous provinces …

Volcanic CO2 degassing postdates thermogenic carbon emission during the end-Permian mass extinction

Y Wu, Y Cui, D Chu, H Song, J Tong, J Dal Corso… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
Massive carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are widely assumed to be the driver of the end-
Permian mass extinction (EPME). However, the rate of and total CO2 released, and whether …

Global warming generates predictable extinctions of warm‐and cold‐water marine benthic invertebrates via thermal habitat loss

CJ Reddin, M Aberhan, NB Raja… - Global Change …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic global warming is redistributing marine life and may threaten tropical benthic
invertebrates with several potential extinction mechanisms. The net impact of climate …

Impact of global climate cooling on Ordovician marine biodiversity

DE Ontiveros, G Beaugrand, B Lefebvre… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Global cooling has been proposed as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification
Event, the largest radiation of Phanerozoic marine animal Life. Yet, mechanistic …

The Ordovician of Scandinavia: a revised regional stage classification

AT Nielsen, P Ahlberg, JOR Ebbestad… - Geological Society …, 2023‏ - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …

Irreversible loss in marine ecosystem habitability after a temperature overshoot

Y Santana-Falcón, A Yamamoto, A Lenton… - … Earth & Environment, 2023‏ - nature.com
Anthropogenic warming of the oceans and associated deoxygenation are altering marine
ecosystems. Current knowledge suggests these changes may be reversible on a centennial …