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 …

Evolution of Atmospheric O2 Through the Phanerozoic, Revisited

BJW Mills, AJ Krause, I Jarvis… - Annual review of earth …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
An oxygen-rich atmosphere is essential for complex animals. The early Earth had an anoxic
atmosphere, and understanding the rise and maintenance of high O2 levels is critical for …

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 …

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) …

Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

EA Sperling, CJ Wolock, AS Morgan, BC Gill… - Nature, 2015‏ - nature.com
Sedimentary rocks deposited across the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic transition record extreme
climate fluctuations, a potential rise in atmospheric oxygen or re-organization of the seafloor …

[کتاب][B] Atmospheric evolution on inhabited and lifeless worlds

DC Catling, JF Kasting - 2017‏ - books.google.com
As the search for Earth-like exoplanets gathers pace, in order to understand them, we need
comprehensive theories for how planetary atmospheres form and evolve. Written by two well …

The evolution of Earth's biogeochemical nitrogen cycle

EE Stüeken, MA Kipp, MC Koehler, R Buick - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all life on Earth and it acts as a major control on
biological productivity in the modern ocean. Accurate reconstructions of the evolution of life …

Continental configuration controls ocean oxygenation during the Phanerozoic

A Pohl, A Ridgwell, RG Stockey, C Thomazo, A Keane… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
The early evolutionary and much of the extinction history of marine animals is thought to be
driven by changes in dissolved oxygen concentrations ([O2]) in the ocean,–. In turn,[O2] is …

Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen

TM Lenton, TW Dahl, SJ Daines, BJW Mills… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
The progressive oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere was pivotal to the evolution of life,
but the puzzle of when and how atmospheric oxygen (O2) first approached modern levels …

The evolution of diatoms and their biogeochemical functions

AS Benoiston, FM Ibarbalz, L Bittner… - … of the Royal …, 2017‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
In contemporary oceans diatoms are an important group of eukaryotic phytoplankton that
typically dominate in upwelling regions and at high latitudes. They also make significant …