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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Widespread terrestrial ecosystem disruption at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.

Mei Nelissen, Debra A Willard, Han van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, Gabriel J Bowen, Teuntje Hollaar, Appy Sluijs, Joost Frieling, Henk Brinkhuis

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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8 authors.

Mei NelissenDepartment of Ocean Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg 1790 AB, the Netherlands.ORCID 0009-0002-6802-2495
Debra A WillardFlorence Bascom Geoscience Center, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA 20192.
Han van Konijnenburg-van CittertDepartment of Earth Sciences, Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CB, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5833-3439
Gabriel J BowenDepartment of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.ORCID 0000-0002-6928-3104
Teuntje HollaarDepartment of Earth Sciences, Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CB, the Netherlands.
Appy SluijsDepartment of Earth Sciences, Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3584 CB, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-2382-0215
Joost FrielingDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford 3584 CB, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5374-1625
Henk BrinkhuisDepartment of Ocean Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg 1790 AB, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0253-6610

Funding

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) RPG0066/2021Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO) 1.034)NSF (NSF) EAR-1502786 and EAR-2121170.Universiteit Utrecht (UU) NZ4543.30
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM, ~56 Mya) interval was marked by massive

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carbon cycleclimate changefernsPaleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximumterrestrial feedback mechanism

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PMID41557811
PMCPMC12849702

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