The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?

RH Cowie, P Bouchet, B Fontaine - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years

CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

[PDF][PDF] Point of departure and key concepts

R Ara Begum, R Lempert, A Elham, TA Benjaminsen… - 2022 - duo.uio.no
Executive Summary The IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report
addresses the challenges of climate action in the context of sustainable development with a …

Mercury as a proxy for volcanic emissions in the geologic record

SE Grasby, TR Them II, Z Chen, R Yin… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Large igneous province (LIP) eruptions are increasingly considered to have driven mass
extinction events throughout the Phanerozoic; however, uncertainties in radiometric age …

How Large Igneous Provinces affect global climate, sometimes cause mass extinctions, and represent natural markers in the geological record

RE Ernst, N Youbi - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) can have a significant global climatic effect as
monitored by sedimentary trace and isotopic compositions that record paleo …

Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic)

J Dal Corso, M Bernardi, Y Sun, H Song… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic) was a time of global environmental changes
and possibly substantial coeval volcanism. The extent of the biological turnover in marine …

Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction

SD Burgess, JD Muirhead, SA Bowring - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Mass extinction events are short-lived and characterized by catastrophic biosphere collapse
and subsequent reorganization. Their abrupt nature necessitates a similarly short-lived …

Large igneous province record through time and implications for secular environmental changes and geological time‐scale boundaries

RE Ernst, DPG Bond, SH Zhang… - … igneous provinces: A …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An emerging consensus suggests that large igneous provinces (LIPs) are a significant driver
of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including several Phanerozoic …

Environmental drivers of the first major animal extinction across the Ediacaran White Sea-Nama transition

SD Evans, C Tu, A Rizzo, RL Surprenant… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
The Ediacara Biota—the oldest communities of complex, macroscopic fossils—consists of
three temporally distinct assemblages: the Avalon (ca. 575–560 Ma), White Sea (ca. 560 …