First plants cooled the Ordovician

2012/02/01 by Timothy M. Lenton, Michael John Collingwood Crouch, Michael Crouch +4 · 6 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Plant Diversity and Evolution

paper · doi:10.1038/ngeo1390

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Citations

• Terrestrial-marine teleconnections in the Devonian: links between the evolution of land plants, weathering processes, and marine anoxic events
• Did Cooling Oceans Trigger Ordovician Biodiversification? Evidence from Conodont Thermometry
• Origin and Radiation of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants
• The microfossil record of early land plants
• Long-lived glaciation in the Late Ordovician? Isotopic and sequence-stratigraphic evidence from western Laurentia
• COPSE: A new model of biogeochemical cycling over Phanerozoic time
• EARLY EVOLUTION OF LAND PLANTS: Phylogeny, Physiology, and Ecology of the Primary Terrestrial Radiation

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• Mass extinction of the marine biota at the Ordovician-Silurian transition due to environmental changes
• The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere
• The timescale of early land plant evolution
• Onset of main Phanerozoic marine radiation sparked by emerging Mid Ordovician icehouse
• Late Ordovician mass extinction [wikipedia]
• Silurian-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution [wikipedia]