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The rise of angiosperms strengthened fire feedbacks and improved the regulation of atmospheric oxygen

The source of oxygen to Earth’s atmosphere is organic carbon burial, whilst the main sink is oxidative weathering of fossil carbon. However, this sink is to insensitive to counteract oxygen rising above its current level of about 21%. Biogeochemical models suggest that wildfires provide an additiona...

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Autores principales: Belcher, Claire M., Mills, Benjamin J. W., Vitali, Rayanne, Baker, Sarah J., Lenton, Timothy M., Watson, Andrew J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7820256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33479227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20772-2