Matworld – the biogeochemical effects of early life on land

New Phytologist

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 531-537

  Lenton, Timothy M ^a   Daines, Stuart J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atmospheric composition; biological soil crust; cryptogamic cover; microbial mat; oxygen; palaeosol; phosphorus (P); weathering

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL MAT; MOBILIZATION; ORGANIC ACID; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PALEOSOL; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEROZOIC; REDOX CONDITIONS; SOIL CRUST; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; WEATHERING;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

OXYGEN;

ATMOSPHERE; BIOGENESIS; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL;

ATMOSPHERE; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIOTA; ORIGIN OF LIFE; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 85005877139     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14338     Document Type: Review

References (63)

1. Beraldi-Campesi H, Farmer JD, Garcia-Pichel F. 2014. Modern terrestrial sedimentary biostructures and their fossil analogs in Mesoproterozoic subaerial deposits. Palaios 29: 45–54.
2. Berkner LV, Marshall LC. 1965. On the origin and rise of oxygen concentration in the Earth's atmosphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 22: 225–261.
3. Beukes NJ, Dorland H, Gutzmer J, Nedachi M, Ohmoto H. 2002. Tropical laterites, life on land, and the history of atmospheric oxygen in the Paleoproterozoic. Geology 30: 491–494.
4. Blank CE, Sánchez-Baracaldo P. 2009. Timing of morphological and ecological innovations in the cyanobacteria – a key to understanding the rise in atmospheric oxygen. Geobiology 8: 1–23.
5. 2 content of the atmosphere. Earth-Science Reviews 56: 1–159.
6. Buick R. 1992. The antiquity of oxygenic photosynthesis: evidence from stromatolites in sulphate-deficient Archaean lakes. Science 255: 74–77.
7. Couradeau E, Karaoz U, Lim HC, Nunes da Rocha U, Northen T, Brodie E, Garcia-Pichel F. 2016. Bacteria increase arid-land soil surface temperature through the production of sunscreens. Nature Communications 7: 10373.
8. Crowe SA, Dossing LN, Beukes NJ, Bau M, Kruger SJ, Frei R, Canfield DE. 2013. Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago. Nature 501: 535–538.
9. Dott JRH. 2003. The importance of eolian abrasion in supermature quartz sandstones and the paradox of weathering on vegetation-free landscapes. The Journal of Geology 111: 387–405.
10. Driese SG, Jirsa MA, Ren M, Brantley SL, Sheldon ND, Parker D, Schmitz M. 2011. Neoarchean paleoweathering of tonalite and metabasalt: Implications for reconstructions of 2.69 Ga early terrestrial ecosystems and paleoatmospheric chemistry. Precambrian Research 189: 1–17.
11. Driese SG, Medaris LG Jr. 2008. Evidence for biological and hydrological controls on the development of a paleoproterozoic paleoweathering profile in the Baraboo Range, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research 78: 443–457.
12. Driese SG, Medaris LG Jr, Ren M, Runkel AC, Langford RP. 2007. Differentiating pedogenesis from diagenesis in early terrestrial paleoweathering surfaces formed on granitic composition parent materials. The Journal of Geology 115: 387–406.
13. Elbert W, Weber B, Burrows S, Steinkamp J, Budel B, Andreae MO, Poschl U. 2012. Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen. Nature Geoscience 5: 459–462.
14. Eriksson PG, Simpson EL, Eriksson KA, Bumby AJ, Steyn GL, Sarkar S. 2000. Muddy roll-up structures in siliciclastic interdune beds of the c. 1.8 Ga Waterberg Group, South Africa. Palaios 15: 177–183.
15. Field KJ, Pressel S, Duckett JG, Rimington WR, Bidartondo MI. 2015. Symbiotic options for the conquest of land. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30: 477–486.
16. Garcia-Pichel F, Wojciechowski MF. 2009. The evolution of a capacity to build supra-cellular ropes enabled filamentous cyanobacteria to colonize highly erodible substrates. PLoS ONE 4: e7801.
17. Glasspool IJ, Scott AC. 2010. Phanerozoic concentrations of atmospheric oxygen reconstructed from sedimentary charcoal. Nature Geoscience 3: 627–630.
18. Herman EK, Kump LR. 2005. Biogeochemistry of microbial mats under Precambrian environmental conditions: a modelling study. Geobiology 3: 77–92.
19. Honegger R, Edwards D, Axe L. 2013. The earliest records of internally stratified cyanobacterial and algal lichens from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. New Phytologist 197: 264–275.
20. Horodyski RJ, Knauth LP. 1994. Life on land in the Precambrian. Science 263: 494–498.
21. Horodyskyj LB, White TS, Kump LR. 2012. Substantial biologically mediated phosphorus depletion from the surface of a Middle Cambrian paleosol. Geology 40: 503–506.
22. Jackson TA. 2015. Weathering, secondary mineral genesis, and soil formation caused by lichens and mosses growing on granitic gneiss in a boreal forest environment. Geoderma 251–252: 78–91.
23. 2 constraints from Paleoproterozoic detrital pyrite and uraninite. Geological Society of America Bulletin 126: 813–830.
24. Keller CK, Wood BD. 1993. Possibility of chemical weathering before the advent of vascular land plants. Nature 364: 223–225.
25. Kennedy M, Droser M, Mayer LM, Pevear D, Mrofka D. 2006. Late Precambrian oxygenation; inception of the clay mineral factory. Science 311: 1446–1449.
26. Kenny R, Knauth LP. 2001. Stable isotope variations in the Neoproterozoic Beck Spring Dolomite and Mesoproterozoic Mescal Limestone paleokarst: implications for life on land in the Precambrian. Geological Society of America Bulletin 113: 650–658.
27. Knauth LP, Kennedy MJ. 2009. The late Precambrian greening of the Earth. Nature 460: 728–732.
28. Kump LR. 2014. Hypothesized link between Neoproterozoic greening of the land surface and the establishment of an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111: 14062–14065.
29. Lalonde SV, Konhauser KO. 2015. Benthic perspective on Earth's oldest evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112: 995–1000.
30. Lenhart K, Weber B, Elbert W, Steinkamp J, Clough T, Crutzen P, Pöschl U, Keppler F. 2015. Nitrous oxide and methane emissions from cryptogamic covers. Global Change Biology 21: 3889–3900.
31. Lenton TM, Crouch M, Johnson M, Pires N, Dolan L. 2012. First plants cooled the Ordovician. Nature Geoscience 5: 86–89.
32. Lenton TM, Dahl TW, Daines SJ, Mills B, Ozaki K, Saltzman MR, Porada P. 2016. Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113: 9704–9709.
33. Lenton TM, Watson AJ. 2004. Biotic enhancement of weathering, atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide in the Neoproterozoic. Geophysical Research Letters 31: L05202.
34. Lu M, Zhu M, Zhang J, Shields-Zhou G, Li G, Zhao F, Zhao X, Zhao M. 2013. The DOUNCE event at the top of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China: broad stratigraphic occurrence and non-diagenetic origin. Precambrian Research 225: 86–109.
35. Lyons TW, Reinhard CT, Planavsky NJ. 2014. The rise of oxygen in Earth's early ocean and atmosphere. Nature 506: 307–315.
36. Mager DM, Thomas AD. 2011. Extracellular polysaccharides from cyanobacterial soil crusts: a review of their role in dryland soil processes. Journal of Arid Environments 75: 91–97.
37. Medaris LG Jr, Singer BS, Dott RH Jr, Naymark A, Johnson CM, Schott RC. 2003. Late Paleoproterozoic climate, tectonics, and metamorphism in the Southern Lake Superior Region and Proto-North America: evidence from Baraboo Interval Quartzites. The Journal of Geology 111: 243–257.
38. Mukhopadhyay J, Crowley QG, Ghosh S, Ghosh G, Chakrabarti K, Misra B, Heron K, Bose S. 2014. Oxygenation of the Archean atmosphere: new paleosol constraints from eastern India. Geology 42: 923–926.
39. Neaman A, Chorover J, Brantley SL. 2005a. Element mobility patterns record organic ligands in soils on early Earth. Geology 33: 117–120.
40. Neaman A, Chorover J, Brantley SL. 2005b. Implications of the evolution of organic acid moieties for basalt weathering over geological time. American Journal of Science 305: 147–185.
41. Ohtomo Y, Kakegawa T, Ishida A, Nagase T, Rosing MT. 2014. Evidence for biogenic graphite in early Archaean Isua metasedimentary rocks. Nature Geoscience 7: 25–28.
42. Planavsky NJ, Rouxel OJ, Bekker A, Lalonde SV, Konhauser KO, Reinhard CT, Lyons TW. 2010. The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir. Nature 467: 1088–1090.
43. Porada P, Lenton TM, Pohl A, Weber B, Mander L, Donnadieu Y, Beer C, Poschl U, Kleidon A. 2016. High potential for weathering and climate effects of non-vascular vegetation in the Late Ordovician. Nature Communications 7: 12113.
44. Porada P, Weber B, Elbert W, Pöschl U, Kleidon A. 2014. Estimating impacts of lichens and bryophytes on global biogeochemical cycles. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 28: 71–85.
45. Prasad N, Roscoe SM. 1996. Evidence of anoxic to oxic atmospheric change during 2.45-2.22 Ga from lower and upper sub-Huronian paleosols, Canada. Catena 27: 105–121.
46. Prave AR. 2002. Life on land in the Proterozoic: evidence from the Torridonian rocks of northwest Scotland. Geology 30: 811–814.
47. Quirk J, Leake JR, Johnson DA, Taylor LL, Saccone L, Beerling DJ. 2015. Constraining the role of early land plants in Palaeozoic weathering and global cooling. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282: 20151115.
48. Raanan H, Felde VJMNL, Peth S, Drahorad S, Ionescu D, Eshkol G, Treves H, Felix-Henningsen P, Berkowicz SM, Keren N et al. 2016. Three-dimensional structure and cyanobacterial activity within a desert biological soil crust. Environmental Microbiology 18: 372–383.
49. Rajeev L, da Rocha UN, Klitgord N, Luning EG, Fortney J, Axen SD, Shih PM, Bouskill NJ, Bowen BP, Kerfeld CA et al. 2013. Dynamic cyanobacterial response to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust. ISME Journal 7: 2178–2191.
50. Rastogi RP, Sinha RP, Moh SH, Lee TK, Kottuparambil S, Kim Y-J, Rhee J-S, Choi E-M, Brown MT, Häder D-P et al. 2014. Ultraviolet radiation and cyanobacteria. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 141: 154–169.
51. Retallack GJ, Mindszenty A. 1994. Well preserved late Precambrian Paleosols from Northwest Scotland. Journal of Sedimentary Research 64: 264–281.
52. Rye R, Holland HD. 2000. Life associated with a 2.76 Ga ephemeral pond?: evidence from Mount Roe #2 paleosol. Geology 28: 483–486.
53. Schwartzman DW, Volk T. 1989. Biotic enhancement of weathering and the habitability of Earth. Nature 340: 457–460.
54. Simpson EL, Heness E, Bumby A, Eriksson PG, Eriksson KA, Hilbert-Wolf HL, Linnevelt S, Malenda HF, Modungwa T, Okafor OJ. 2013. Evidence for 2.0 Ga continental microbial mats in a paleodesert setting. Precambrian Research 237: 36–50.
55. Spinks SC, Parnell J, Bowden SA, Taylor RAD, Maclean ME. 2014. Enhanced organic carbon burial in large Proterozoic lakes: implications for atmospheric oxygenation. Precambrian Research 255: 202–215.
56. Strother PK, Battison L, Brasier MD, Wellman CH. 2011. Earth's earliest non-marine eukaryotes. Nature 473: 505–509.
57. Strother PK, Wellman CH. 2016. Palaeoecology of a billion-year-old non-marine cyanobacterium from the Torridon Group and Nonesuch Formation. Palaeontology 59: 89–108.
58. Stueken EE, Catling DC, Buick R. 2012. Contributions to late Archaean sulphur cycling by life on land. Nature Geoscience 5: 722–725.
59. Štyriaková I, Štyriak I, Oberhänsli H. 2012. Rock weathering by indigenous heterotrophic bacteria of Bacillus spp. at different temperature: a laboratory experiment. Mineralogy and Petrology 105: 135–144.
60. Tosca NJ, Johnston DT, Mushegian A, Rothman DH, Summons RE, Knoll AH. 2010. Clay mineralogy, organic carbon burial, and redox evolution in Proterozoic oceans. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74: 1579–1592.
61. Watanabe Y, Martini JEJ, Ohmoto H. 2000. Geochemical evidence for terrestrial ecosystems 2.6 billion years ago. Nature 408: 574–577.
62. Wellman CH, Strother PK. 2015. The terrestrial biota prior to the origin of land plants (embryophytes): a review of the evidence. Palaeontology 58: 601–627.
63. Zerkle AL, Claire MW, Domagal-Goldman SD, Farquhar J, Poulton SW. 2012. A bistable organic-rich atmosphere on the Neoarchaean Earth. Nature Geoscience 5: 359–363.