Feedbacks in ecology and evolution

JG Pausas, WJ Bond - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - cell.com
Ecology and evolutionary biology have focused on how organisms fit the environment. Less
attention has been given to the idea that organisms can also modify their environment, and …

Reviews and syntheses: Biological weathering and its consequences at different spatial levels–from nanoscale to global scale

RD Finlay, S Mahmood, N Rosenstock… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Plant nutrients can be recycled through microbial decomposition of organic matter but
replacement of base cations and phosphorus, lost through harvesting of biomass/biofuels or …

[HTML][HTML] Biosilicification drives a decline of dissolved Si in the oceans through geologic time

DJ Conley, PJ Frings, G Fontorbe… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Biosilicification has driven variation in the global Si cycle over geologic time. The evolution
of different eukaryotic lineages that convert dissolved Si (DSi) into mineralized structures …

Differential weathering of basaltic and granitic catchments from concentration–discharge relationships

DE Ibarra, JK Caves, S Moon, DL Thomas… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
A negative feedback between silicate weathering rates and climate is hypothesized to play a
central role in moderating atmospheric CO 2 concentrations on geologic timescales …

Out of the shadows: ecology of open ecosystems

WJ Bond - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Biomes of the world have long been assumed to be determined by climate. Major disparities,
where open low biomass systems occurred in the same climate zone as closed forests have …

Stomatal function across temporal and spatial scales: deep-time trends, land-atmosphere coupling and global models

PJ Franks, JA Berry, DL Lombardozzi… - Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Stomatal Function across Temporal and Spatial Scales: Deep-Time Trends, Land-Atmosphere
Coupling and Global Models | Plant Physiology | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content …

Fire and fire‐adapted vegetation promoted C4 expansion in the late Miocene

S Scheiter, SI Higgins, CP Osborne… - New …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Large proportions of the Earth's land surface are covered by biomes dominated by C4
grasses. These C4‐dominated biomes originated during the late Miocene, 3–8 million years …

Integrating Fossils, Phylogenies, and Niche Models into Biogeography to Reveal Ancient Evolutionary History: The Case of Hypericum (Hypericaceae)

AS Meseguer, JM Lobo, R Ree, DJ Beerling… - Systematic …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In disciplines such as macroevolution that are not amenable to experimentation, scientists
usually rely on current observations to test hypotheses about historical events, assuming …

Living on the edge: timing of Rand Flora disjunctions congruent with ongoing aridification in Africa

L Pokorny, R Riina, M Mairal, AS Meseguer… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The Rand Flora is a well-known floristic pattern in which unrelated plant lineages show
similar disjunct distributions in the continental margins of Africa and adjacent islands …

Cenozoic planktonic marine diatom diversity and correlation to climate change

D Lazarus, J Barron, J Renaudie, P Diver, A Türke - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Marine planktonic diatoms export carbon to the deep ocean, playing a key role in the global
carbon cycle. Although commonly thought to have diversified over the Cenozoic as global …