Breathless through Time: Oxygen and Animals across Earth's History

Autor: Erik A. Sperling, Thomas H. Boag, Murray I. Duncan, Cecilia R. Endriga, J. Andres Marquez, Daniel B. Mills, Pedro M. Monarrez, Judith A. Sclafani, Richard G. Stockey, Jonathan L. Payne
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The Biological bulletin. 243(2)
ISSN: 1939-8697
Popis: Oxygen levels in the atmosphere and ocean have changed dramatically over Earth history, with major impacts on marine life. Because the early part of Earth's history lacked both atmospheric oxygen and animals, a persistent co-evolutionary narrative has developed linking oxygen change with changes in animal diversity. Although it was long believed that oxygen rose to essentially modern levels around the Cambrian period, a more muted increase is now believed likely. Thus, if oxygen increase facilitated the Cambrian explosion, it did so by crossing critical ecological thresholds at low O
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