Plants and Temperature--CO 2 Uncoupling
- 3 September 1999
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 285 (5433) , 1500-1501
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.285.5433.1500
Abstract
In the recent geological past, temperature and atmospheric COconcentrations have been coupled: Cooling generally coincides with low COand warming with high COconcentrations. However, some geological records indicate that in the more distant geological past, temperature and COmay have been uncoupled. Such temperature-COuncoupling, if confirmed by further studies, may influence our ideas about climate-forcing mechanisms and about functioning of paleoecosystems.Keywords
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