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Onset of large-scale terrestrial organic carbon burial driven by Early Devonian changes in vascular plants and environments (2025)
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Yin, L., Yang, M., Lu, J., Ling, Z., Hu, X., Bian, X., Zhou, K., Zhang, P., Liu, L., Shao, L., Hilton, J., & Bond, D. (2025). Onset of large-scale terrestrial organic carbon burial driven by Early Devonian changes in vascular plants and environments. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 674, Article 113039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113039

The Early Devonian witnessed a major phase in the terrestrialization of land by plants. Understanding the implications for organic matter formation and accumulation during this interval is key to understanding global carbon burial. Existing research... Read More about Onset of large-scale terrestrial organic carbon burial driven by Early Devonian changes in vascular plants and environments.

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the marine nitrogen cycle during the end-Triassic mass extinction (2025)
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Li, J., Song, H., Du, Y., Wignall, P. B., Bond, D. P., Grasby, S. E., Song, H., Dal Corso, J., Tian, L., & Chu, D. (2025). Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the marine nitrogen cycle during the end-Triassic mass extinction. Chemical Geology, 682, Article 122752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.122752

The end-Triassic mass extinction (ETME) marks a pivotal event in Earth's history, characterized by major environmental changes in both marine and terrestrial settings and significant perturbations in the carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles alon... Read More about Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the marine nitrogen cycle during the end-Triassic mass extinction.

A palynological investigation of the Early-Middle Devonian transition and associated Choteč Event in Northern Spain (2024)
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Lopes, G., Blanco-Ferrera, S., Bond, D. P., Greene, S. E., Hilton, J., Marshall, J. E., Sanz-López, J., & Wellman, C. H. (2025). A palynological investigation of the Early-Middle Devonian transition and associated Choteč Event in Northern Spain. Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 332, Article 105222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105222

In Northern Spain there is a near complete sequence of Devonian rocks that accumulated around a relatively isolated land mass, the Armorican Terrane Assemblage, which was separated from Gondwana to the south and Laurussia to the north. The Lower to M... Read More about A palynological investigation of the Early-Middle Devonian transition and associated Choteč Event in Northern Spain.

Re-evaluating Water Column Reoxygenation during the End Permian Mass Extinction (2024)
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Yang, F., Li, S., An, K. Y., Bond, D. P., Ao, R., Wu, X. B., Ma, L. L., & Sun, Y. D. (2024). Re-evaluating Water Column Reoxygenation during the End Permian Mass Extinction. Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems G³, 25(10), Article e2024GC011779. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011779

Ocean anoxia is considered a key driver of the end-Permian mass extinction (EPME). However, it is much debated whether there was an ocean reoxygenation phase during, and in the aftermath, of the EPME. Evidence for ocean reoxygenation is often inferre... Read More about Re-evaluating Water Column Reoxygenation during the End Permian Mass Extinction.

Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction (2024)
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Sun, Y., Farnsworth, A., Joachimski, M. M., Wignall, P. B., Krystyn, L., Bond, D. P., Ravidà, D. C., & Valdes, P. J. (2024). Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction. Science, 385(6714), 1189-1195. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado2030

The ultimate driver of the end-Permian mass extinction is a topic of much debate. Here, we used a multiproxy and paleoclimate modeling approach to establish a unifying theory elucidating the heightened susceptibility of the Pangean world to the prolo... Read More about Mega El Niño instigated the end-Permian mass extinction.

The impact of frequent wildfires during the Permian–Triassic transition: Floral change and terrestrial crisis in southwestern China (2024)
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Hua, F., Shao, L., Wang, X., Jones, T., Jones, T. P., Zhang, T., Bond, D. P., Yan, Z., & Hilton, J. (2024). The impact of frequent wildfires during the Permian–Triassic transition: Floral change and terrestrial crisis in southwestern China. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 641, Article 112129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112129

Wildfires are considered to have played an important role in the land plants crisis during the Permian–Triassic (P–T) transition. However, the nature and impact of wildfires in the P–T terrestrial crisis remains unclear. Organic petrology data from a... Read More about The impact of frequent wildfires during the Permian–Triassic transition: Floral change and terrestrial crisis in southwestern China.

Marine snowstorm during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction (2023)
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Grasby, S. E., Ardakani, O. H., Liu, X., Bond, D. P. G., Wignall, P. B., & Strachan, L. J. (2024). Marine snowstorm during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Geology, 52(2), 120-124. https://doi.org/10.1130/G51497.1

The Permian-Triassic mass extinction (PTME) interval is marked by major excursions in both inorganic and organic carbon (C) isotopes. Carbon cycle models predict that these trends were driven by large increases in productivity, yet organic C-rich roc... Read More about Marine snowstorm during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.

The great catastrophe: causes of the Permo-Triassic marine mass extinction (2023)
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Wignall, P. B., & Bond, D. P. G. (2024). The great catastrophe: causes of the Permo-Triassic marine mass extinction. National Science Review, 11(1), Article nwad273. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad273

The marine losses during the Permo-Triassic mass extinction were the worst ever experienced. All groups were badly affected, especially amongst the benthos (e.g. brachiopods, corals, bryozoans, foraminifers, ostracods). Planktonic populations underwe... Read More about The great catastrophe: causes of the Permo-Triassic marine mass extinction.

How Large Igneous Provinces Have Killed Most Life on Earth—Numerous Times (2023)
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Grasby, S. E., & Bond, D. P. (2023). How Large Igneous Provinces Have Killed Most Life on Earth—Numerous Times. Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology, 19(5), 276-281. https://doi.org/10.2138/gselements.19.5.276

Evolution has not been a simple path. Since the first appearance of complex life, there have been several mass extinctions on Earth. This was exemplified by the most severe event during the Phanerozoic, the end-Permian mass extinction that occurred 2... Read More about How Large Igneous Provinces Have Killed Most Life on Earth—Numerous Times.

Global oceanic anoxia linked with the Capitanian (Middle Permian) marine mass extinction (2023)
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Song, H., Algeo, T., Song, H., Tong, J., Wignall, P., Bond, D. P., Zheng, W., Chen, X., Romaniello, S., Wei, H., & Anbar, A. (2023). Global oceanic anoxia linked with the Capitanian (Middle Permian) marine mass extinction. Earth and planetary science letters, 610, Article 118128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118128

The timing and causation of the Capitanian (late Middle Permian) biocrisis remain controversial. Here, a detailed uranium-isotopic (δ238U) profile was generated for the mid-Capitanian to lower Wuchiapingian of the Penglaitan section (the Guadalupian/... Read More about Global oceanic anoxia linked with the Capitanian (Middle Permian) marine mass extinction.