Palaeoecology articles within Nature Geoscience

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• Letter | 01 July 2013

  Abrupt vegetation change after the Late Quaternary megafaunal extinction in southeastern Australia

  The extinction of megafauna in Australia about 43,000 years ago has been linked to both human arrival and vegetation change. Marine sediment analyses from the east coast of Australia suggest that vegetation change was a result, rather than cause, of the extinction.

  • Raquel A. Lopes dos Santos
  • , Patrick De Deckker
  •  & Stefan Schouten

• News & Views | 27 February 2013

  Plankton in a greenhouse world

  The Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum was marked by global warming and ocean acidification. Fossil and experimental analyses show that different species of marine calcifying algae responded very differently to the environmental upheavals.

  • Gerald Langer

• Letter | 21 February 2010

  Rapid fluvial incision along the Yellow River during headward basin integration

  The onset of fluvial erosion in an area of tectonic uplift is thought to reflect the timing of the uplift. Geomorphological data from the Yellow River in Tibet, indicate that the rapid incision of this river channel occurred as a result of climate change, at least six million years after the onset of plateau uplift.

  • William H. Craddock
  • , Eric Kirby
  •  & Jianhui Liu

• Letter | 07 February 2010

  Carbon sequestration activated by a volcanic CO₂ pulse during Ocean Anoxic Event 2

  Ninety-four million years ago, during Ocean Anoxic Event 2, there was a marked increase in the burial of organic carbon in marine sediments. Measurements of stomata in fossil leaves show that the two main pulses of carbon burial were associated with a decline in atmospheric CO₂ levels of up to 26%.

  • Richard S. Barclay
  • , Jennifer C. McElwain
  •  & Bradley B. Sageman