The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: A perturbation of carbon cycle, climate, and biosphere with implications for the future

FA McInerney, SL Wing - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM),∼ 56 Mya, thousands of
petagrams of carbon were released into the ocean-atmosphere system with attendant …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrological and associated biogeochemical consequences of rapid global warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

MJ Carmichael, GN Inglis, MPS Badger… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) hyperthermal,~ 56 million years
ago (Ma), is the most dramatic example of abrupt Cenozoic global warming. During the …

Lithium isotope evidence for enhanced weathering and erosion during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

PAE Pogge von Strandmann, MT Jones, AJ West… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM;~ 55.9 Ma) was a geologically rapid
warming period associated with carbon release, which caused a marked increase in the …

Impact of warming on aquatic body sizes explained by metabolic scaling from microbes to macrofauna

C Deutsch, JL Penn, WCEP Verberk… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Rising temperatures are associated with reduced body size in many marine species, but the
biological cause and generality of the phenomenon is debated. We derive a predictive …

Climate, oxygen, and the future of marine biodiversity

C Deutsch, JL Penn, N Lucey - Annual Review of Marine …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The ocean enabled the diversification of life on Earth by adding O2 to the atmosphere, yet
marine species remain most subject to O2 limitation. Human industrialization is intensifying …

Cenozoic mass extinctions in the deep sea: What perturbs the largest habitat on Earth?

E Thomas - 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Deep-sea benthic foraminifera live in the largest habitat on Earth, constitute an important
part of its benthic biomass, and form diverse assemblages with common cosmopolitan …

Environmental changes during the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction and Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: implications for the Anthropocene

G Keller, P Mateo, J Punekar, H Khozyem, B Gertsch… - Gondwana …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB) mass extinction (~ 66.02 Ma) and the
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)(~ 55.8 Ma) are two remarkable climatic and …

Coupled microbial bloom and oxygenation decline recorded by magnetofossils during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

L Chang, RJ Harrison, F Zeng, TA Berndt… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding marine environmental change and associated biological turnover across the
Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM;~ 56 Ma)—the most pronounced Cenozoic …

Long-term legacy of massive carbon input to the Earth system: Anthropocene versus Eocene

RE Zeebe, JC Zachos - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Over the next few centuries, with unabated emissions of anthropogenic carbon dioxide
(CO2), a total of 5000 Pg C may enter the atmosphere, causing CO2 concentrations to rise to …

Modern seawater acidification: the response of foraminifera to high-CO2 conditions in the Mediterranean Sea

BB Dias, MB Hart, CW Smart… - Journal of the …, 2010 - lyellcollection.org
The seas around the island of Ischia (Italy) have a lowered pH as a result of volcanic gas
vents that emit carbon dioxide from the sea floor at ambient seawater temperatures. These …