Volcanic phosphorus spikes associated with supercontinent assembly supported the evolution of land plants

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Ordovician-Devonian lichen canopies before evolution of woody trees

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A high-resolution record of early Paleozoic climate

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(2021) Tian Gan et al.   Nature Communications

The composition and weathering of the continents over geologic time

(2021) A.G. Lipp et al.   Geochemical Perspectives Letters

Was climatic cooling during the earliest Carboniferous driven by expansion of seed plants?

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Global chemical weathering dominated by continental arcs since the mid-Palaeozoic

(2021) Thomas M. Gernon et al.   Nature Geoscience

Volcanism-induced late Boda warming in the Late Ordovician: Evidence from the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China

(2021) Yangbo Lu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply

(2021) Jack Longman et al.   Nature Geoscience

Enhanced continental weathering and large igneous province induced climate warming at the Permo-Carboniferous transition

(2020) Jianghai Yang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity

(2020) Jun-xuan Fan et al.   SCIENCE

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The coupling of Phanerozoic continental weathering and marine phosphorus cycle

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The impacts of land plant evolution on Earth's climate and oxygenation state – An interdisciplinary review

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Impact of trees and forests on the Devonian landscape and weathering processes with implications to the global Earth's system properties - A critical review

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Cycling phosphorus on the Archean Earth: Part II. Phosphorus limitation on primary production in Archean ecosystems

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Quantitatively Tracking the Elevation of the Tibetan Plateau Since the Cretaceous: Insights From Whole‐Rock Sr/Y and La/Yb Ratios

(2020) Fangyang Hu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

How Lithology Impacts Global Topography, Vegetation, and Animal Biodiversity: A Global‐Scale Analysis of Mountainous Regions

(2020) Richard F. Ott   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Arc-continent collisions in the tropics set Earth’s climate state

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Fungal evolution: major ecological adaptations and evolutionary transitions

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Explosive volcanism as a key driver of the late Paleozoic ice age

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The robustness of Sr/Y and La/Yb as proxies for crust thickness in modern arcs

(2019) Warren K. Lieu et al.   Geosphere

Coordinated biotic and abiotic change during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Darriwilian assembly of early Paleozoic building blocks

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Glacio-eustasy and δ13 C across the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary in the eastern Paleo-Tethys Ocean (South China): Implications for mid-Carboniferous major glaciation

(2019) Xiaoxu Tian et al.   GEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Baltica cradle of early land plants? Oldest record of trilete spores and diverse cryptospore assemblages; evidence from Ordovician successions of Sweden

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Global events of the Late Paleozoic (Early Devonian to Middle Permian): A review

(2019) Wenkun Qie et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A new anatomically preserved Alloiopteris fern from Moscovian (Bolsovian) volcanoclastics of Flöha (Flöha Basin, SE Germany)

(2019) Josef Pšenička et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

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(2019) Michael P. D’Antonio et al.   GEOLOGY

Revisiting the Great Ordovician Diversification of land plants: Recent data and perspectives

(2019) Thomas Servais et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Improved efficiency of the biological pump as a trigger for the Late Ordovician glaciation

(2018) Jiaheng Shen et al.   Nature Geoscience

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(2018) Mariusz A. Salamon et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The timescale of early land plant evolution

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(2018) William J. McMahon et al.   SCIENCE

Archean phosphorus liberation induced by iron redox geochemistry

(2018) Barry Herschy et al.   Nature Communications

Silicate weathering rate and its controlling factors: A study from small granitic watersheds in the Jiuhua Mountains

(2018) Mingzhao Sun et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

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Plate tectonic regulation of global marine animal diversity

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Matworld - the biogeochemical effects of early life on land

(2016) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen

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Plant evolution and terrestrialization during Palaeozoic times—The phylogenetic context

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Stepwise evolution of Paleozoic tracheophytes from South China: Contrasting leaf disparity and taxic diversity

(2015) Jinzhuang Xue et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) stratigraphy of Ordovician bulk carbonate: Implications for preservation of primary seawater values

(2015) Cole T. Edwards et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Cycles of nutrient trace elements in the Phanerozoic ocean

(2015) Ross R. Large et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Late Ordovician Glaciation Initiated by Early Land Plant Evolution and Punctuated by Greenhouse Mass Extinctions

(2015) Gregory J. Retallack   JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

(2015) Erik A. Sperling et al.   NATURE

Early seed plants from Western Gondwana: Paleobiogeographical and ecological implications based on Tournaisian (Lower Carboniferous) records from Argentina

(2015) C. Prestianni et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The terrestrial biota prior to the origin of land plants (embryophytes): a review of the evidence

(2015) Charles H. Wellman et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Constraining the role of early land plants in Palaeozoic weathering and global cooling

(2015) Joe Quirk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cryptospores from the Hanadir Shale Member of the Qasim Formation, Ordovician (Darriwilian) of Saudi Arabia: taxonomy and systematics

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Quantifying crustal thickness over time in magmatic arcs

(2015) Lucia Profeta et al.   Scientific Reports

Calibration of a conodont apatite-based Ordovician87Sr/86Sr curve to biostratigraphy and geochronology: Implications for stratigraphic resolution

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Plate tectonic influences on Neoproterozoic–early Paleozoic climate and animal evolution

(2014) N. Ryan McKenzie et al.   GEOLOGY

Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras

(2014) Dianne Edwards et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Oldest Caseid Synapsid from the Late Pennsylvanian of Kansas, and the Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates

(2014) Robert R. Reisz et al.   PLoS One

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(2014) W. Jesse Hahm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Late Paleozoic Ice Age: An Evolving Paradigm

(2013) Isabel P. Montañez et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The sedimentary record of Carboniferous rivers: Continuing influence of land plant evolution on alluvial processes and Palaeozoic ecosystems

(2013) Neil S. Davies et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Cambrian Explosion: Plume-driven birth of the second ecosystem on Earth

(2013) M. Santosh et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

VOLCANIC EFFECTS ON MICROPLANKTON DURING THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC TRANSITION (SHANGSI AND XINMIN, SOUTH CHINA)

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Ordovician ash geochemistry and the establishment of land plants

(2012) John Parnell et al.   GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS

First plants cooled the Ordovician

(2012) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Palaeozoic landscapes shaped by plant evolution

(2012) Martin R. Gibling et al.   Nature Geoscience

A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic

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Modeling the early Paleozoic long-term climatic trend

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Ancestral polyploidy in seed plants and angiosperms

(2011) Yuannian Jiao et al.   NATURE

Evolution of fixed-channel alluvial plains in response to Carboniferous vegetation

(2011) Neil S. Davies et al.   Nature Geoscience

Exceptional fossil preservation during CO2 greenhouse crises?

(2011) Gregory J. Retallack   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Rainforest collapse triggered Carboniferous tetrapod diversification in Euramerica

(2010) Sarda Sahney et al.   GEOLOGY

Early Middle Ordovician evidence for land plants in Argentina (eastern Gondwana)

(2010) C. V. Rubinstein et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Did a Katian large igneous province trigger the Late Ordovician glaciation?

(2010) Vincent Lefebvre et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Arborescent lignophytes in the Tournaisian vegetation of Queensland (Australia): Palaeoecological and palaeogeographical significance

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Supercontinent tectonics and biogeochemical cycle: A matter of ‘life and death’

(2010) M. Santosh   Geoscience Frontiers

Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian pedostratigraphy and global events in Australia

(2009) G. J. Retallack   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Gene and genome duplications: the impact of dosage-sensitivity on the fate of nuclear genes

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Vegetation as a major conductor of geomorphic changes on the Earth surface: toward evolutionary geomorphology

(2009) Dov Corenblit et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Extreme weathering/erosion during the Miocene Climatic Optimum: Evidence from sediment record in the South China Sea

(2009) Shiming Wan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A Great Revolution of the Earth-Surface Environment: Linking the Bio-Invasion Onto the Land and the Ordovician Radiation of Marine Organisms

(2009) Fujio Masuda et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Origin and Radiation of the Earliest Vascular Land Plants

(2009) P. Steemans et al.   SCIENCE

The Global Phosphorus Cycle: Past, Present, and Future

(2008) G. M. Filippelli   Elements

Rethinking early Earth phosphorus geochemistry

(2008) M. A. Pasek   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA