The paleocene-eocene thermal maximum: A perturbation of carbon cycle, climate, and biosphere with implications for the future

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue , 2011, Pages 489-516

  McInerney, Francesca A ^a   Wing, Scott L ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon cycle; global warming; paleoclimate; paleoecology; PETM

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CARBON CYCLES; CLIMATE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOGRAPHIC RANGES; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; LARGE SHIFTS; LONG-TERM FUTURE; MARINE ORGANISMS; OCEAN CHEMISTRY; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM; PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUMS; PALEOCLIMATES; PALEOECOLOGY; PETM; RAPID EVOLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; MARINE BIOLOGY;

ECOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BENTHOS; BIOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORAMINIFERA; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGENE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

FORAMINIFERA; MYA;

EID: 79953801159     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040610-133431     Document Type: Article

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