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DOI	10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115875
	End-Permian (252 Mya) deforestation, wildfires and flooding—An ancient biotic crisis with lessons for the present
	Vajda V.; McLoughlin S.; Mays C.; Frank T.D.; Fielding C.R.; Tevyaw A.; Lehsten V.; Bocking M.; Nicoll R.S.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0012821X
卷号	529
英文摘要	Current large-scale deforestation poses a threat to ecosystems globally, and imposes substantial and prolonged changes on the hydrological and carbon cycles. The tropical forests of the Amazon and Indonesia are currently undergoing deforestation with catastrophic ecological consequences but widespread deforestation events have occurred several times in Earth's history and these provide lessons for the future. The end-Permian mass-extinction event (EPE; ∼252 Ma) provides a global, deep-time analogue for modern deforestation and diversity loss. We undertook centimeter-resolution palynological, sedimentological, carbon stable-isotope and paleobotanical investigations of strata spanning the end-Permian event at the Frazer Beach and Snapper Point localities, in the Sydney Basin, Australia. We show that the typical Permian temperate, coal-forming, forest communities disappeared abruptly, followed by the accumulation of a 1-m-thick mudstone poor in organic matter that, in effect, represents a ‘dead zone’ hosting degraded wood fragments, charcoal and fungal spores. This signals a catastrophic scenario of vegetation die-off and extinction in southern high-latitude terrestrial settings. Lake systems, expressed by laterally extensive but generally less than a few-metres-thick laminated siltstones, generally lacking bioturbation, hosting assemblages of algal cysts and freshwater acritarchs, developed soon after the vegetation die-off. The first traces of vascular plant recovery occur ∼1.6 m above the extinction horizon. Based on analogies with modern deforestation, we propose that the global fungal and acritarch events of the Permo-Triassic transition resulted directly from inundation of basinal areas following water-table rise as a response to the abrupt disappearance of complex vegetation from the landscape. The δ13Corg values reveal a significant excursion toward low isotopic values, down to −31‰ (a shift of ∼4‰), across the end-Permian event. The magnitude of the shift at that time records a combination of changes in the global carbon cycle that were enhanced by the local increase in microbial activity, possibly also involving cyanobacterial proliferation. We envisage that elevated levels of organic and mineral nutrients delivered from inundated dead forests, enhanced weathering and erosion of extra-basinal areas, together with local contributions of volcanic ash, led to eutrophication and increased salinity of basinal lacustrine–lagoonal environments. We propose that the change in acritarch communities recorded globally in nearshore marine settings across the end-Permian event is to a great extent a consequence of the influx of freshwater algae and nutrients from the continents. Although this event coincides with the Siberian trap volcanic activity, we note that felsic–intermediate volcanism was extensively developed along the convergent Panthalassan margin of Pangea at that time and might also have contributed to environmental perturbations at the close of the Permian. © 2019 The Author(s)
关键词	Amazon Australia biodiversity extinction palynology Triassic
英文关键词	Algae; Biodiversity; Carbon; Charcoal; Eutrophication; Floods; Groundwater; Isotopes; Light extinction; Nutrients; Vegetation; Volcanoes; Amazon; Australia; Carbon stable isotopes; Ecological consequences; Environmental perturbations; Mass extinction events; palynology; Triassic; Deforestation; biodiversity; biotic factor; deforestation; extinction; flooding; palynology; Permian; Triassic; wildfire; Amazon River; Australia; Indonesia; Acritarcha; algae; Cyanobacteria; Mya; Tracheophyta
语种	英语
来源期刊	Earth and Planetary Science Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/202944
作者单位	Swedish Museum of Natural History, Svante Arrhenius v. 9, Stockholm, SE-104 05, Sweden; Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 126 Bessey Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0340, United States; Lund University, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Sölvegatan 12, Lund, SE-223 62, Sweden; Bocking Associates, 8 Tahlee Close, Castle HillNSW, Australia; 72 Ellendon Street, Bungendore, NSW 2621, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Vajda V.,McLoughlin S.,Mays C.,等. End-Permian (252 Mya) deforestation, wildfires and flooding—An ancient biotic crisis with lessons for the present[J],2020,529.
APA	Vajda V..,McLoughlin S..,Mays C..,Frank T.D..,Fielding C.R..,...&Nicoll R.S..(2020).End-Permian (252 Mya) deforestation, wildfires and flooding—An ancient biotic crisis with lessons for the present.Earth and Planetary Science Letters,529.
MLA	Vajda V.,et al."End-Permian (252 Mya) deforestation, wildfires and flooding—An ancient biotic crisis with lessons for the present".Earth and Planetary Science Letters 529(2020).