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Fossil Plants and Global Warming at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary
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The Triassic-Jurassic boundary marks a major faunal mass extinction, but records of accompanying environmental changes are limited. Paleobotanical evidence indicates a fourfold increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and suggests an associated 3° to 4°C “greenhouse” warming across the boundary. These environmental conditions are calculated to have raised leaf temperatures above a highly conserved lethal limit, perhaps contributing to the >95 percent species-level turnover of Triassic-Jurassic megaflora.
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- Authors
- McElwain, J. C., Beerling, D. J., & Woodward, F. I.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1999-08-27
- Volume
- 285
- Issue
- 5432
- Pages
- 1386-1390
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2007663434
- Cited by
- 666
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 17.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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