Greenhouse-icehouse transition in the Late Ordovician marks a step change in extinction regime in the marine plankton

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1498-1503

  Crampton, James S ^a,b   Cooper, Roger A ^a   Sadler, Peter M ^c   Foote, Michael ^d  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Age selectivity; Extinction; Graptolites; Plankton; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE; MARINE SPECIES; MASS EXTINCTION; NONHUMAN; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILURIAN; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UPPER ORDOVICIAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME FACTOR;

ICE; SEA WATER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANKTON; SEAWATER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84957837165     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1519092113     Document Type: Article

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