How to kill (almost) all life: the end-Permian extinction event

By Michael Benton, R. Twitchett. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Paleontology

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The palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental analysis of mass extinction events (2006, background): “This exacerbates the global warming, leading to further temperature rise, further methane release, and a runaway greenhouse effect (e.g., Benton and Twitchett, 2003).”
How can a knowledge of the past help to conserve the future? Biodiversity conservation and the relevance of long-term ecological studies (2007, background): “There are notable exceptions (see for instance Benton & Twitchett (2003) on the end-Permian mass extinction), but even if a detailed temporal record across a previous mass extinction event is obtained, of what relevance is this to current conservation practice? Many would argue that it merely prov”
Effects of climate-induced coral bleaching on coral-reef fishes - ecological and economic consequences (2008, background): “…(e.g., the end-Permian extinction event) and diversification are strongly associated with periods of rapid climate change (e.g., sepkoski 1998, benton & Twitchett 2003). currently, mean atmospheric temperatures are increasing at a largely unprecedented rate, with concomitant changes in many…”
GLOBAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY TRENDS (2006, background): “Examples include the marine Mesozoic revolution (MMR) that followed the end-Permian mass extinction (45).”
Late Permian (Lopingian) terrestrial ecosystems: A global comparison with new data from the low-latitude Bletterbach Biota (2017, background): “Furthermore, a deep understanding of Permian terrestrial ecosystems is especially relevant because this time interval precedes the most severe biotic crisis of Earth history, the end-Permian mass extinction (Benton and Twitchett, 2003).”
The recovery of terrestrial vertebrate diversity in the South African Karoo Basin after the end-Permian extinction (2005, background): “An estimated 90% of all marine species (e.g. [5,17,33,50]) and 70% of all terrestrial vertebrate families [34,35] disappeared within 165 kyr [8] and perhaps as little as 10 kyr [56,60].”
Rapid vertebrate recuperation in the Karoo Basin of South Africa following the End-Permian extinction (2006, background): “…estimated to have occurred around 251.4 Mya (Bowring et al., 1998), has been well researched and is currently considered to be the most catastrophic mass extinction event in Earth’s history (Erwin, 1994; Retallack, 1995; Benton, 2003; Benton and Twitchett, 2003; Erwin et al., 2002; Erwin, 2003).”
Exceptional vertebrate biotas from the Triassic of China, and the expansion of marine ecosystems after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction (2013, background): “The eruptions led to a series of consequences that have been identified worldwide by sedimentology and isotope geochemistry, including: atmospheric and oceanic warming by 5–10 °C, anoxia in the oceans, and acid rain leading to massive killing of forests and consequent stripping of soils on land (Wig”
Global Catastrophic Risks (2008, background): “Maslin et al. (2004) claim that there is evidence for the hypothesis from Dansgaard-Oeschger interstadials; Benton and Twitchett (2003) claim that the sudden release of methane gas from methane hydrates (sometimes called the ‘clathrate gun hypothesis’) may have been responsible for the mass…”