ReviewPhilosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2018
Hyperthermal-driven mass extinctions: killing models during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.
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- Transitions between persistent climate-carbon regimes coincide with elevated Phanerozoic biosphere vulnerability.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Rapid riparian ecosystem recovery in low-latitudinal North China following the end-Permian mass extinction.eLife · 2026Article
- Evolutionary stasis in synapsid encephalization during the end-permian mass extinction.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Nematode-trapping devices of Arthrobotrys oligospora is an iron storage system mediated by elevated temperatures.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
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- Refugium amidst ruins: Unearthing the lost flora that escaped the end-Permian mass extinction.Science advances · 2025Article
- Respiratory protein-driven selectivity during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2024Article
- Thermal and nutrient stress drove Permian-Triassic shallow marine extinctions.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2024Article
- Thalattosauria in time and space: a review of thalattosaur spatiotemporal occurrences, presumed evolutionary relationships and current ecological hypotheses.Swiss journal of palaeontology · 2024Review
- The diverse diaspora of CAM: a pole-to-pole sketch.Annals of botany · 2023Review
- Centennial scale sequences of environmental deterioration preceded the end-Permian mass extinction.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Improving the relevance of paleontology to climate change policy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Marine conservation palaeobiology: What does the late Quaternary fossil record tell us about modern-day extinctions and biodiversity threats?Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2023Review
- Photosymbiont associations persisted in planktic foraminifera during early Eocene hyperthermals at Shatsky Rise (Pacific Ocean).PloS one · 2022Article
- Massive and rapid predominantly volcanic COProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Ecological dynamics of terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems across three mid-Phanerozoic mass extinctions from northwest China.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Evolution of Protein Structure and Stability in Global Warming.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Flat latitudinal diversity gradient caused by the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
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- Altered fluvial patterns in North China indicate rapid climate change linked to the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Many mass extinctions of life in the sea and on land have been attributed to geologically rapid heating, and in the case of the Permian-Triassic and others, driven by large igneous province volcanism. The Siberian Traps eruptions raised ambient temperatures to 35-40°C. A key question is how massive eruptions during these events, and others, could have killed life in the sea and on land; proposed killers are reviewed here. In the oceans, benthos and plankton were killed by anoxia-euxinia and lethal heating, respectively, and the habitable depth zone was massively reduced. On land, the combination of extreme heating and drought reduced the habitable land area, and acid rain stripped forests and soils. Physiological experiments show that some animals can adapt to temperature rises of a few degrees, and that some can survive short episodes of increases of 10°C. However, most plants and animals suffer major physiological damage at temperatures of 35-40°C. Studies of the effects of extreme physical conditions on modern organisms, as well as assumptions about rates of environmental change, give direct evidence of likely killing effects deriving from hyperthermals of the past.This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Hyperthermals: rapid and extreme global warming in our geological past'.
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