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Paleoecology (also spelled palaeoecology) is the study of interactions between organisms and/or interactions between organisms and their environments across geologic timescales. As a discipline, paleoecology interacts with, depends on and informs a variety of fields including paleontology, ecology, climatology and biology. Read more...
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@mander.xyzhttps://eos.org/articles/volcanic-lightning-may-have-retooled-the-nitrogen-needed-for-life
Early Earth’s volcanoes could have spurred lightning that transformed atmospheric nitrogen, creating molecules that would have been necessary for life to emerge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/02/29/life-earth-origin-chemistry/
https://worldsensorium.com/unearthing-the-oldest-forest-on-earth-two-hours-from-new-york-city-you-can-travel-back-nearly-400-million-years/
Unearthing The Oldest Forest on Earth Two Hours from New York City You Can Travel Back Nearly 400 Million Years By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! The exploration of an ancient, fossilized forest in a quarry in Cairo, New York, in the region of the Catskill-Hudson Valley, initiated years ago, has revealed...
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/living-fossil-tree-frozen-in-time-for-66-million-years-being-planted-in-secret-locations
Wollemi pines — thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago — were rediscovered in 1994. Scientists are now hoping to reintroduce the species in the wild in a conservation effort that could take centuries.
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-orchid-family-emerged-northern-hemisphere.html
In a new study published in New Phytologist, scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, along with partners in Latin America, Asia and Australia, present an updated family tree of orchids, tracing their origins to the northern hemisphere some 85 million years ago. Not only does the study shed new light on their complex and fascinating evolutionary history, but the study's authors hope their findings will help inform future orchid conservation planning.
https://theconversation.com/a-botanical-pompeii-we-found-spectacular-australian-plant-fossils-from-30-million-years-ago-222512
Millions of years ago, widespread volcano eruptions in eastern Australia buried entire forests. Today, these time capsules reveal stunningly fossilised plants.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034666723002105?via=ihub=
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/dinosaur-evergreens-thought-extinct-for-2mil-years-discovered-by-park-ranger-90-tree-grove-is-find-of-the-century/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trees-research-new-brunswick-canada-b2489615.html
‘The history of life on land consists of plants and animals that are unlike any of those that live at the present’
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-pollen-diaries-polar-ice-climate.html
Pollen can help scientists track changes in vegetation through time, as they respond to moderations of the climate, be that glaciation or deglaciation with transitions into and out of ice ages. Furthermore, it can help elucidate the interplay between climate and the impact early human settlement exploitation of the natural world had on forests.