The timing and pattern of biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction

ZQ Chen, MJ Benton - Nature Geoscience, 2012 - nature.com
The aftermath of the great end-Permian period mass extinction 252 Myr ago shows how life
can recover from the loss of> 90% species globally. The crisis was triggered by a number of …

Impacts of global warming on Permo-Triassic terrestrial ecosystems

MJ Benton, AJ Newell - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Geologists and palaeontologists have expressed mixed views about the effects of the end-
Permian mass extinction on continental habitats and on terrestrial life. Current work …

Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth's climate state

FA Macdonald, NL Swanson-Hysell, Y Park, L Lisiecki… - Science, 2019 - science.org
On multimillion-year time scales, Earth has experienced warm ice-free and cold glacial
climates, but it is unknown whether transitions between these background climate states …

Long-term decline in krill stock and increase in salps within the Southern Ocean

A Atkinson, V Siegel, E Pakhomov, P Rothery - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and salps (mainly Salpa thompsoni) are major grazers in
the Southern Ocean,,,, and krill support commercial fisheries. Their density distributions …

Anomalous Early Triassic sediment fluxes due to elevated weathering rates and their biological consequences

TJ Algeo, RJ Twitchett - Geology, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Analysis of 16 marine Permian-Triassic boundary sections with a near-global
distribution demonstrates systematic changes in sediment fluxes and lithologies in the …

Terrestrial–marine teleconnections in the collapse and rebuilding of Early Triassic marine ecosystems

TJ Algeo, ZQ Chen, ML Fraiser, RJ Twitchett - Palaeogeography …, 2011 - Elsevier
The latest Permian mass extinction (LPE), just prior to the Permian–Triassic boundary at~
252Ma, resulted in the disappearance of~ 90% of skeletonized marine taxa and the …

Recovery from the most profound mass extinction of all time

S Sahney, MJ Benton - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The end-Permian mass extinction, 251 million years (Myr) ago, was the most devastating
ecological event of all time, and it was exacerbated by two earlier events at the beginning …

Hyperthermal-driven mass extinctions: killing models during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

MJ Benton - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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 …

Modern and ancient fluvial megafans in the foreland basin system of the central Andes, southern Bolivia: Implications for drainage network evolution in fold‐thrust …

BK Horton, PG DeCelles - Basin research, 2001 - earthdoc.org
Fluvial megafans chronicle the evolution of large mountainous drainage networks, providing
a record of erosional denudation in adjacent mountain belts. An actualistic investigation of …

Morphodynamics of rivers strongly affected by monsoon precipitation: review of depositional style and forcing factors

P Plink-Björklund - Sedimentary Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Rivers that receive significant amounts of their surface water supply from monsoon
precipitation characteristically experience seasonal floods, and display seasonally highly …