supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.42172035 and 41572024);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Liaoning Universities(No.LJ202410166012);Geological Survey Project of China(No.DD20221645);Open Foundation(No.203124)of State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,CAS)。
The Ediacaran Period records a significant turning point in the evolution of life on Earth,witnessing the rise to ecological dominance of macroscopic tissue-grade organisms.The Wenghui biota from the Doushantuo Format...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41930319,41621003,and EAR-1554897);the 111 Project(No.D17013);the Natural Science Basic Research Plan of Shaanxi Province(No.2022JC-DW5-01).
Burgess Shale-type deposits provide a wealth of information on the early evolution of animals.Questions that are central to understanding the exceptional preservation of these biotas and the paleoenvironments they inh...
Field work focused on the Kuedinskie Kluchiki locality, Perm region, Urals, Russia, which contains a rich assemblage of diverse fossil organisms including higher plants(equisetophytes, pteridosperms, ginkgophytes, con...
supported by CNPq-Brazil through grants nb.408815/2021-3 and 304509/2021-3;by Instituto Serrapilheira through Project“MOBILE:Mountain Belts and the Inception of Complex Life on Earth(geolifemobile.com)”,grant no.Serra-1912-31510,and by the Worldwide Universities Network-WUN through their Research Development Fund(RDF 2022);The first author is part of Instituto GeoAtlântico,a National Institute of Science and Technology,CNPq-Brazil process nb.405653/2022-0;Most of the data presented here was acquired during a sevenmonth visiting research appointment of FAC at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability supported by CAPES-Brazil through their PRINT program(88887.682318/2022-00);EAS and some geochemical analyses at Stanford were supported by U.S.National Science Foundation grant EAR-2143164;MG was supported by the Research Foundation of the Federal District(FAPDF)-process no.0193.001609/2017。
The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition witnessed some of the most important biological,tectonic,climatic and geochemical changes in Earth's history.Of utmost importance for early animal evolution is the likely shift in red...
Plastic pollution is now recognised as a growing concern for both the environment and associated biota.Consequently,a plethora of scientific reports are being produced regarding the occurrence,distribution,and transfe...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41890843,41890845,41930319,42242201,and 42272354);the Overseas Expertise Introduction Project for Discipline Innovation(the 111 Project,D17013);the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi(2022JC-DW5-01);the National Science Foundation of USA(EAR-1554897).
Sulfate reduction is an essential metabolism that maintains biogeochemical cycles in marine and terrestrial ecosystems.Sulfate reducers are exclusively prokaryotic,phylogenetically diverse,and may have evolved early i...
Manadas Creek is an urban tributary of the Rio Grande that flows past a decommissioned antimony smelter and processing plant. This antimony plant is associated with heavy metal contamination in the creek and still pos...
supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(Grant No.2019QZKK0706);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41921002)。
The complex evolutionary history of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas,including the continental blocks(Indian,Lhasa,South Qiangtang,Tarim,Olongbuluk,Central Qilian,Alxa,North China,Yangtze,Central ...
supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(Grant No.2019QZKK0706);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.91955201,42172002)。
During the Carboniferous Period,the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas were located in quite different paleogeographic positions with various sedimentary and biological types.It is important to systemat...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Project(Grant No.2022YFF08008002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42272035,42288201,42072001,and 42272027);the Second Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition(Grant No.2019QZKK0706);the 111 Introduction Program(Grant No.B20011);the International Geological Comparison Program(Grant No.IGCP679)。
The Cretaceous Period is a vital time interval in deciphering the evolutionary history of the Neo-Tethys Ocean and the convergence of different plates and blocks across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.A detailed stratigra...