High potential for weathering and climate effects of non-vascular vegetation in the Late Ordovician
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It has been hypothesized that predecessors of today’s bryophytes significantly increased global chemical weathering in the Late Ordovician, thus reducing atmospheric CO 2 concentration and contributing to climate cooling and an interval of glaciations. Studies that try to quantify the enhancement of weathering by non-vascular vegetation, however, are usually limited to small areas and low numbers of species, which hampers extrapolating to the global scale and to past climatic conditions. Here we present a spatially explicit modelling approach to simulate global weathering by non-vascular vegetation in the Late Ordovician. We estimate a potential global weathering flux of 2.8 (km 3 rock) yr−1, defined here as volume of primary minerals affected by chemical transformation. This is around three times larger than today’s global chemical weathering flux. Moreover, we find that simulated weathering is highly sensitive to atmospheric CO 2 concentration. This implies a strong negative feedback between weathering by non-vascular vegetation and Ordovician climate.
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The radiation of land plants must have had an impact on weathering processes and global chemical fluxes and subsequently on pCO2 and pO2 values in the early Palaeozoic.
“it appears evident that the radiation of land plants must have had an impact on weathering processes and global chemical fluxes (e.g., Algeo et al., 2001; Porada et al., 2016) and sub sequently on the p CO2 and p O2 values in the early Palaeozoic (e.g., Lenton et al., 2012, 2018; Edwards et al., 2017).”
From No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event: A single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic (2023) · cites this paper as Porada et al., 2016
The Discussion (page not provided) suggests that the evolutionary radiation of primitive land plants could have increased the Ordovician weathering flux, supporting the link to weathering and global chemical fluxes. It presents that increase as a possibility, however, rather than the necessary impact asserted by “must have.” The subsequent pCO2 and pO2 clause carries different citations and is not attributed to this source here. (LLM, conf=0.84)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredWe estimate much higher global NPP and weathering potential than previous arguments.
“However, we estimate much higher global NPP (Fig. 2) and weathering potential (32).”
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- Authors
- Porada, P., Lenton, T. M., Pohl, A., Weber, B., Mander, L., Donnadieu, Y., Beer, C., Pöschl, U., & Kleidon, A.
- Affiliations
- Stockholm University (SE)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (DE)
- The Open University (GB)
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Porada, P.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2016-07-07
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 12113-12113
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4941054
- OpenAlex
- W2467792527
- Cited by
- 118
- References
- 67
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 5
- FWCI
- 10.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Open Research Online (The Open University) (acceptedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Unipub UB Graz (Universität Graz) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Leverhulme Trust (RPG‐2013‐106)
- European Commission (282700)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (WE2393/2)
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Grand Équipement National De Calcul Intensif
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
- Keywords
- chemical weathering, bryophytes, Late Ordovician, atmospheric CO2, Ordovician glaciation, global cooling, weathering fluxes, spatially explicit modelling, primary minerals
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