[HTML][HTML] The Eocene–Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model–data comparisons

DK Hutchinson, HK Coxall, DJ Lunt… - Climate of the …, 2021 - cp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) was a climate shift from a largely ice-free
greenhouse world to an icehouse climate, involving the first major glaciation of Antarctica …

The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review

S Schouten, EC Hopmans, JSS Damsté - Organic geochemistry, 2013 - Elsevier
Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) lipids are membrane lipids which were long
thought to be synthesized mainly by archaea, organisms thought to be limited to extreme …

Synchronous tropical and polar temperature evolution in the Eocene

MJ Cramwinckel, M Huber, IJ Kocken, C Agnini, PK Bijl… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Palaeoclimate reconstructions of periods with warm climates and high atmospheric CO2
concentrations are crucial for developing better projections of future climate change. Deep …

[HTML][HTML] The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: Methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data …

CJ Hollis, T Dunkley Jones… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
The early Eocene (56 to 48 million years ago) is inferred to have been the most recent time
that Earth's atmospheric CO2 concentrations exceeded 1000 ppm. Global mean …

Reconciling fossils with phylogenies reveals the origin and macroevolutionary processes explaining the global cycad biodiversity

M Coiro, R Allio, N Mazet, LJ Seyfullah… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The determinants of biodiversity patterns can be understood using macroevolutionary
analyses. The integration of fossils into phylogenies offers a deeper understanding of …

[PDF][PDF] Phylotranscriptomics in Cucurbitaceae reveal multiple whole-genome duplications and key morphological and molecular innovations

J Guo, W Xu, Y Hu, J Huang, Y Zhao, L Zhang… - Molecular Plant, 2020 - cell.com
The ability of climbing plants to grow upward along others to reach the canopy for
photosynthesis is hypothesized as a key innovation in flowering plants. Most members of the …

Mediterranean biomes: evolution of their vegetation, floras, and climate

PW Rundel, MTK Arroyo, RM Cowling… - Annual Review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Mediterranean-type ecosystems (MTEs) are located today in southwestern Australia, the
Cape Region of South Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, California, and central Chile. These …

Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth

JP Klages, U Salzmann, T Bickert, CD Hillenbrand… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The mid-Cretaceous period was one of the warmest intervals of the past 140 million years,,,–
, driven by atmospheric carbon dioxide levels of around 1,000 parts per million by volume. In …

[HTML][HTML] Climate model and proxy data constraints on ocean warming across the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

TD Jones, DJ Lunt, DN Schmidt, A Ridgwell… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Constraining the greenhouse gas forcing, climatic warming and estimates of climate
sensitivity across ancient large transient warming events is a major challenge to the …

The Coexistence Approach—Theoretical background and practical considerations of using plant fossils for climate quantification

T Utescher, AA Bruch, B Erdei, L François… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Coexistence Approach was established by Mosbrugger and Utescher (1997)
as a plant-based method to reconstruct palaeoclimate by considering recent climatic …