Studying changes in marine biogeographic patterns, and the factors impacting these patterns over geological time, can help scientists understand current responses­ in organisms due to human-driven ...
According to a new study from an international team led by researchers, the oxygen-deficient zones that occur in the open ocean shrank in long warm periods of the past. When oxygen becomes scarce, ...
This study is led by the Paleoecology Research Group (PRG) of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The PRG is the main force of the paleontological ...
For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ ...