[HTML][HTML] Ordovician palaeogeography and climate change

LRM Cocks, TH Torsvik - Gondwana Research, 2021 - Elsevier
New palaeogeographical reconstructions for the earlier Ordovician (480 Ma), and later
Ordovician (450 Ma) integrate revised longitude-calibrated palaeomagnetic reconstructions …

The origin and evolution of mycorrhizal symbioses: from palaeomycology to phylogenomics

C Strullu‐Derrien, MA Selosse, P Kenrick… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 1012 I. Introduction 1013 II. The mycorrhizal symbiosis at the dawn and
rise of the land flora 1014 III. From early land plants to early trees: the origin of roots and true …

Dryland photoautotrophic soil surface communities endangered by global change

E Rodriguez-Caballero, J Belnap, B Büdel… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Photoautotrophic surface communities forming biological soil crusts (biocrusts) are crucial
for soil stability as well as water, nutrient and trace gas cycling at regional and global scales …

COPSE reloaded: an improved model of biogeochemical cycling over Phanerozoic time

TM Lenton, SJ Daines, BJW Mills - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The 'COPSE'(Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Sulphur and Evolution)
biogeochemical model predicts the coupled histories and controls on atmospheric O 2, CO 2 …

Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen

TM Lenton, TW Dahl, SJ Daines… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event: a single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic

T Servais, B Cascales-Miñana, DAT Harper… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cambrian 'Explosion', located by many authors between 540 and 520 million
years ago (Ma), is considered to be an abrupt appearance in the fossil record of most animal …

Oxygenation history of the Neoproterozoic to early Phanerozoic and the rise of land plants

MW Wallace, A Shuster, A Greig, NJ Planavsky… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
There has been extensive debate about the history of Earth's oxygenation and the role that
land plant evolution played in sha** Earth's ocean–atmosphere system. Here we use the …

[HTML][HTML] The impacts of land plant evolution on Earth's climate and oxygenation state–An interdisciplinary review

TW Dahl, SKM Arens - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
The Paleozoic emergence of terrestrial plants has been linked to a stepwise increase in
Earth's O 2 levels and a cooling of Earth's climate by drawdown of atmospheric CO 2 …

Vertical decoupling in Late Ordovician anoxia due to reorganization of ocean circulation

A Pohl, Z Lu, W Lu, RG Stockey, M Elrick, M Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Geochemical redox proxies indicate that seafloor anoxia occurred during the latest
Ordovician glacial maximum, coincident with the second pulse of the Late Ordovician mass …

Evolution of alluvial mudrock forced by early land plants

WJ McMahon, NS Davies - Science, 2018 - science.org
Mudrocks are a primary archive of Earth's history from the Archean eon to recent times, and
their source-to-sink production and deposition play a central role in long-term ocean …