The microbial carbon pump and climate change

N Jiao, T Luo, Q Chen, Z Zhao, X **ao, J Liu… - Nature reviews …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The ocean has been a regulator of climate change throughout the history of Earth. One key
mechanism is the mediation of the carbon reservoir by refractory dissolved organic carbon …

Oxygenation, life, and the planetary system during Earth's middle history: An overview

TW Lyons, CW Diamond, NJ Planavsky, CT Reinhard… - Astrobiology, 2021‏ - liebertpub.com
The long history of life on Earth has unfolded as a cause-and-effect relationship with the
evolving amount of oxygen (O2) in the oceans and atmosphere. Oxygen deficiency …

Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

R Wood, AG Liu, F Bowyer, PR Wilby… - Nature ecology & …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Abstract The 'Cambrian Explosion'describes the rapid increase in animal diversity and
abundance, as manifest in the fossil record, between~ 540 and 520 million years ago (Ma) …

A Great late Ediacaran ice age

R Wang, B Shen, X Lang, B Wen… - National Science …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The emergence of the Ediacara biota soon after the Gaskiers glaciation ca. 580 million years
ago (Ma) implies a possible glacial fuse for the evolution of animals. However, the timing of …

The rise of oxygen in Earth's early ocean and atmosphere

TW Lyons, CT Reinhard, NJ Planavsky - Nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
The rapid increase of carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's modern atmosphere is a
matter of major concern. But for the atmosphere of roughly two-and-half billion years ago …

The Cambrian conundrum: early divergence and later ecological success in the early history of animals

DH Erwin, M Laflamme, SM Tweedt, EA Sperling… - science, 2011‏ - science.org
Diverse bilaterian clades emerged apparently within a few million years during the early
Cambrian, and various environmental, developmental, and ecological causes have been …

Calibrating the coevolution of Ediacaran life and environment

AD Rooney, MD Cantine, KD Bergmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
The rise of animals occurred during an interval of Earth history that witnessed dynamic
marine redox conditions, potentially rapid plate motions, and uniquely large perturbations to …

Neoproterozoic glaciations in a revised global palaeogeography from the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Gondwanaland

ZX Li, DAD Evans, GP Halverson - Sedimentary Geology, 2013‏ - Elsevier
This review paper presents a set of revised global palaeogeographic maps for the 825–540
Ma interval using the latest palaeomagnetic data, along with lithological information for …

The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

LM Och, GA Shields-Zhou - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012‏ - Elsevier
The oxygen content of the Earth's surface environment is thought to have increased in two
broad steps: the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) around the Archean–Proterozoic boundary …

Ediacaran extinction and Cambrian explosion

SAF Darroch, EF Smith, M Laflamme… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018‏ - cell.com
The Ediacaran–Cambrian (E–C) transition marks the most important geobiological
revolution of the past billion years, including the Earth's first crisis of macroscopic eukaryotic …