ISSN 1662-4009 (online)

ey0016.14-8 | (1) | ESPEYB16

14.8. Temperature-dependent hypoxia explains biogeography and severity of end-Permian marine mass extinction

Penn Justin L. , Deutsch Curtis , Payne Jonathan L. , Sperling Erik A.

To read the full abstract: Science 07 Dec 2018: Vol. 362, Issue 6419, eaat1327These authors report the frequencies of Metabolic Index traits in living species and used these values to define a set of model ecophysiotypes. They then populated the model Permian ocean with each ecophysiotype, and found that ocean warming increases the metabolic O2 demand amid declining supply; t...