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ArticleNature communications2025

Early Triassic super-greenhouse climate driven by vegetation collapse.

Zhen Xu, Jianxin Yu, Hongfu Yin, Andrew S Merdith, Jason Hilton, Bethany J Allen, Khushboo Gurung, Paul B Wignall, Alexander M Dunhill, Jun Shen and 7 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Early evolutionary history of the seed.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Zhen XuState Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P.R. China. Z.xu@leeds.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6529-4973
Jianxin YuState Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P.R. China. yujianxin@cug.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5196-6954
Hongfu YinState Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P.R. China.
Andrew S MerdithSchool of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Science, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Jason HiltonBirmingham Institute of Forest Research, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0286-8236
Bethany J AllenDepartment of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0282-6407
Khushboo GurungSchool of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8074-7339
Paul B WignallSchool of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Alexander M DunhillSchool of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8680-9163
Jun ShenState Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P.R. China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3759-6533
David SchwartzmanDepartment of Biology, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA.
Yves GoddérisGéosciences Environnement Toulouse, CNRS-Université de Toulouse III, Toulouse, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6054-614X
Yannick DonnadieuCEREGE, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, INRA, Coll France, Aix-en-Provence, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7315-2684
Yuxuan WangState Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, P.R. China.
Yinggang ZhangSchool of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2644-3902
Simon W PoultonSchool of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7621-189X
Benjamin J W MillsSchool of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. B.Mills@leeds.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9141-0931

Funding

China Scholarship Council (CSC) 202106410082National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 42430209National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 92055201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME), the most severe crisis of the Phanerozoic, has been attributed to intense global warming triggered by Siberian Traps volcanism. However, it remains unclear why super-greenhouse conditions persisted for around five million years after the volcanic episode, with one possibility being that the slow recovery of plants limited carbon sequestration. Here we use fossil occurrences and lithological indicators of climate to reconstruct spatio-temporal maps of plant productivity changes through the PTME and employ climate-biogeochemical modelling to investigate the Early Triassic super-greenhouse. Our reconstructions show that terrestrial vegetation loss during the PTME, especially in tropical regions, resulted in an Earth system with low levels of organic carbon sequestration and restricted chemical weathering, resulting in prolonged high CO

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Extinction, BiologicalGlobal WarmingPlantsCarbon DioxideCarbon SequestrationClimateClimate ChangeFossilsCarbon Dioxide

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PMCPMC12222451

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