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 …

Decoupled oxygenation of the Ediacaran ocean and atmosphere during the rise of early animals

W Shi, BJW Mills, C Li, SW Poulton, AJ Krause… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran Period (∼ 635 to 541 Ma) witnessed the early diversification and
radiation of metazoans, in the form of the Ediacaran Biota. This biological revolution …

Spatiotemporal variation of dissolved oxygen in the Ediacaran surface ocean and its implication for oceanic carbon cycling

Z Zhang, M Cheng, H Wang, X Chen, W Guo… - Science China Earth …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Ediacaran Period (635–539 Ma) witnessed the largest negative excursion in
inorganic carbon isotope (δ13Ccarb) over the Earth's geological history, also known as the …

Climate variability during the late Ediacaran: Insights from episodic deposition of black shale-hosted Mn‑carbonates in South China

Y Zhang, Z Liao, J Cao, GG Lash, Y Wei, Q Shi… - Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Ediacaran period witnessed events that were of significance to the evolution of Earth's
environment and early life, especially the Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event during the …

Seawater temperatures during the early to middle Ediacaran: Phosphate oxygen isotope records

H Fan, Z Chen, F Zhang, C Zhu, S Du, Y Zhang, H Wen… - Chemical …, 2025 - Elsevier
Early multicellular eukaryotes are hypothesized to have first evolved in deep-water (ie,
subphotic) environments with a narrow temperature range and low oxygen levels (pO 2) …