Environmental crises at the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

J Dal Corso, H Song, S Callegaro, D Chu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The link between the Permian–Triassic mass extinction (252 million years ago) and the
emplacement of the Siberian Traps Large Igneous Province (STLIP) was first proposed in …

[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 …

Cycles of~ 32.5 My and~ 26.2 My in correlated episodes of continental flood basalts (CFBs), hyper-thermal climate pulses, anoxic oceans, and mass extinctions over …

MR Rampino, K Caldeira, S Rodriguez - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Potential temporal and causal connections among various geologic events have long been
discussed in the geological literature. More recently, signs of common periodicities in these …

Climate extremes likely to drive land mammal extinction during next supercontinent assembly

A Farnsworth, YTE Lo, PJ Valdes, JR Buzan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mammals have dominated Earth for approximately 55 Myr thanks to their adaptations and
resilience to warming and cooling during the Cenozoic. All life will eventually perish in a …

Improving the relevance of paleontology to climate change policy

W Kiessling, JA Smith, NB Raja - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Paleontology has provided invaluable basic knowledge on the history of life on Earth. The
discipline can also provide substantial knowledge to societal challenges such as climate …

A functional vulnerability framework for biodiversity conservation

A Auber, C Waldock, A Maire, E Goberville… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Setting appropriate conservation strategies in a multi-threat world is a challenging
goal, especially because of natural complexity and budget limitations that prevent effective …

Successive climate crises in the deep past drove the early evolution and radiation of reptiles

TR Simões, CF Kammerer, MW Caldwell… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Climate change–induced mass extinctions provide unique opportunities to explore the
impacts of global environmental disturbances on organismal evolution. However, their …

Volcanic CO2 degassing postdates thermogenic carbon emission during the end-Permian mass extinction

Y Wu, Y Cui, D Chu, H Song, J Tong, J Dal Corso… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Massive carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are widely assumed to be the driver of the end-
Permian mass extinction (EPME). However, the rate of and total CO2 released, and whether …

Spatial pattern of marine oxygenation set by tectonic and ecological drivers over the Phanerozoic

X Wang, TJ Algeo, C Li, M Zhu - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
Marine redox conditions (that is, oxygen levels) impact a wide array of biogeochemical
cycles, but the main controls of marine redox since the start of the Phanerozoic about 538 …

[BOOK][B] Stratigraphic paleobiology: understanding the distribution of fossil taxa in time and space

ME Patzkowsky, SM Holland - 2019 - degruyter.com
Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view
of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late …