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 …

Late Paleozoic oxygenation of marine environments supported by dolomite U-Pb dating

M Ben-Israel, RM Holder, LL Nelson, EF Smith… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding causal relationships between evolution and ocean oxygenation hinges on
reliable reconstructions of marine oxygen levels, typically from redox-sensitive geochemical …

Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life

TW Lyons, CJ Tino, GP Fournier… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Two records of Earth history capture the evolution of life and its co-evolving ecosystems with
interpretable fidelity: the geobiological and geochemical traces preserved in rocks and the …

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 …

Integrative approaches to understanding organismal responses to aquatic deoxygenation

HA Woods, AL Moran, D Atkinson… - The Biological …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
Oxygen bioavailability is declining in aquatic systems worldwide as a result of climate
change and other anthropogenic stressors. For aquatic organisms, the consequences are …

Speculations on the Paleozoic legacy of Gondwana amalgamation

JB Murphy, RD Nance, ST Johnston, JM Casas… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
Using Gondwana as an example, we show how the geological record can be interrogated to
detect significant changes in mantle convection patterns at critical junctures in Earth's …

Extent and biogeochemical impact of Skolithos piperock in the lower Cambrian Zabriskie Quartzite (California, USA)

S Westacott, M Zhao, LG Tarhan - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2024 - Elsevier
The advent of bioturbation in the early Paleozoic and the subsequent intensification of
sediment mixing by benthic animals dramatically altered marine ecosystems and …

Late Ordovician ironstone and its relation to ocean redox instability, climate and glaciation

EJ Matheson, JD Malone, PK Pufahl, EE Hiatt - Sedimentology, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Upper Ordovician (Katian) Neda Formation, a phosphatic ironstone, records a
widespread but short‐lived shift to ferruginous waters across a vast epicontinental area …

A Bayesian analysis of technological intelligence in land and oceans

M Lingam, A Balbi, SM Mahajan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Current research indicates that (sub) surface ocean worlds essentially devoid of subaerial
landmasses (eg, continents) are common in the Milky Way and that these worlds could host …

Transport of 'Nama'‐type biota in sediment gravity and combined flows: Implications for terminal Ediacaran palaeoecology

B O'Connell, WJ McMahon, A Nduutepo… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The lower Nama Group in southern Namibia contains trace fossils and soft‐
bodied and biomineralized macro‐organisms from the terminal Ediacaran Period (ca 550 to …