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END-PERMIAN BURNOUT: THE ROLE OF PERMIAN–TRIASSIC WILDFIRES IN EXTINCTION, CARBON CYCLING, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN EASTERN GONDWANA by Mays, Chris, McLoughlin, Stephen

“…Wildfire has been implicated as a potential driver of deforestation and continental biodiversity loss during the end-Permian extinction event (EPE; ∼ 252 Ma)…”
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Age and pattern of the southern high-latitude continental end-Permian extinction constrained by multiproxy analysis by Fielding, Christopher R., Frank, Tracy D., McLoughlin, Stephen, Vajda, Vivi, Mays, Chris, Tevyaw, Allen P., Winguth, Arne, Winguth, Cornelia, Nicoll, Robert S., Bocking, Malcolm, Crowley, James L.

“…Past studies of the end-Permian extinction (EPE), the largest biotic crisis of the Phanerozoic, have not resolved the timing of events in southern…”
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Lethal microbial blooms delayed freshwater ecosystem recovery following the end-Permian extinction by Mays, Chris, McLoughlin, Stephen, Frank, Tracy D., Fielding, Christopher R., Slater, Sam M., Vajda, Vivi

“…Harmful algal and bacterial blooms linked to deforestation, soil loss and global warming are increasingly frequent in lakes and rivers. We demonstrate that…”
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Sedimentology of the continental end‐Permian extinction event in the Sydney Basin, eastern Australia by Fielding, Christopher R., Frank, Tracy D., Tevyaw, Allen P., Savatic, Katarina, Vajda, Vivi, McLoughlin, Stephen, Mays, Chris, Nicoll, Robert S., Bocking, Malcolm, Crowley, James L., Ghinassi, Massimiliano

“…Upper Permian to Lower Triassic coastal plain successions of the Sydney Basin in eastern Australia have been investigated in outcrop and continuous drillcores…”
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Comprehensive survey of Early to Middle Triassic Gondwanan floras reveals under-representation of plant–arthropod interactions by Turner, Holly-Anne, McLoughlin, Stephen, Mays, Chris

“…Plants and arthropods are primary drivers of terrestrial ecosystem function. Trace fossils of plant–arthropod interactions (PAIs) provide a unique window into…”
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Reconstructing Krassilovia mongolica supports recognition of a new and unusual group of Mesozoic conifers by Herrera, Fabiany, Shi, Gongle, Mays, Chris, Ichinnorov, Niiden, Takahashi, Masamichi, Bevitt, Joseph J, Herendeen, Patrick S, Crane, Peter R

“…Previously unrecognized anatomical features of the cone scales of the enigmatic Early Cretaceous conifer Krassilovia mongolica include the presence of…”
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Pushing the limits of neutron tomography in palaeontology: Three-dimensional modelling of in situ resin within fossil plants by Mays, C, Bevitt, JJ, Stilwell, JD

“…Computed tomography is an increasingly popular technique for the non-destructive study of fossils. Whilst the science of X-ray computed tomography (CT) has…”
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Age and Paleoenvironmental Significance of the Frazer Beach Member—A New Lithostratigraphic Unit Overlying the End-Permian Extinction Horizon in the Sydney Basin, Australia by McLoughlin, Stephen, Nicoll, Robert S., Crowley, James L., Vajda, Vivi, Mays, Chris, Fielding, Christopher R., Frank, Tracy D., Wheeler, Alexander, Bocking, Malcolm

“…The newly defined Frazer Beach Member of the Moon Island Beach Formation is identified widely across the Sydney Basin in both outcrop and exploration wells…”
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The range of bioinclusions and pseudoinclusions preserved in a new Turonian (~90 ma) amber occurrence from Southern Australia by Quinney, Annie, Mays, Chris, Stilwell, Jeffrey D, Zelenitsky, Darla K, Therrien, François

“…A new Turonian amber occurrence, representing the oldest in situ amber locality in Australia and the southern-most locality in Gondwana, has recently been…”
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Ignorance as a productive response to epistemic perturbations by Mays, Chris

“…This paper argues that ignorance, rather than being a result or representation of false beliefs or misinformation, is a compensatory epistemic adaptation of…”
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Judging an Acritarch by its Cover: the Taxonomic Implications of Introvertocystis rangiaotea gen. et sp. nov. from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand by Mays, Chris M, Stilwell, Jeffrey D

“…Described here is a small acritarch with a fine reticulation on the internal surface of the cyst wall which provides a new criterion for future acritarch…”
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Synchrotron X-ray imaging reveals the three-dimensional architecture of beetle borings (Dekosichnus meniscatus) in Middle–Late Jurassic araucarian conifer wood from Argentina by McLoughlin, Stephen, Mays, Chris

“…Longitudinally aligned borings attributed to the ichnotaxon Dekosichnus meniscatus in the inner secondary wood of a silicified Middle–Late Jurassic conifer…”
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Permian–Triassic non-marine algae of Gondwana—Distributions, natural affinities and ecological implications by Mays, Chris, Vajda, Vivi, McLoughlin, Stephen

“…The abundance, diversity and extinction of non-marine algae are controlled by changes in the physical and chemical environment and community structure of…”
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Writing Complexity, One Stability at a Time: Teaching Writing as a Complex System by Mays, Chris

“…This article uses systems and complexity theory to illustrate key characteristics of writing as a complex system. This illustration reveals how writing works…”
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"You Can't Make This Stuff Up": Complexity, Facts, and Creative Nonfiction by Mays, Chris

“…Jim W. Corder, writing over thirty years ago, explained that we all create the narrative that is our lives. The difficulty, Corder writes, comes in…”
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End-Permian (252 Mya) deforestation, wildfires and flooding—An ancient biotic crisis with lessons for the present by Vajda, Vivi, McLoughlin, Stephen, Mays, Chris, Frank, Tracy D., Fielding, Christopher R., Tevyaw, Allen, Lehsten, Veiko, Bocking, Malcolm, Nicoll, Robert S.

“…Current large-scale deforestation poses a threat to ecosystems globally, and imposes substantial and prolonged changes on the hydrological and carbon cycles…”
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Environmental change in the late Permian of Queensland, NE Australia: The warmup to the end-Permian Extinction by Fielding, Christopher R., Frank, Tracy D., Savatic, Katarina, Mays, Chris, McLoughlin, Stephen, Vajda, Vivi, Nicoll, Robert S.

“…The upper part of the upper Permian succession in the Bowen Basin of Queensland, NE Australia, was investigated to ascertain the timeline and character of…”
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Climatic implications of Ginkgoites waarrensis Douglas emend. from the south polar Tupuangi flora, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian), Chatham Islands by Mays, Chris, Steinthorsdottir, Margret, Stilwell, Jeffrey D.

“…The flora of the Cenomanian–Turonian (ca. 96–90Ma) Tupuangi Formation, Chatham Islands, New Zealand, was inhabiting a region well within the south polar circle…”
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Protodammara reimatamoriori, a new species of conifer (Cupressaceae) from the Upper Cretaceous Tupuangi Formation, Chatham Islands, Zealandia by Mays, Chris, Cantrill, David J.

“…Mays, C. & Cantrill, D.J., 4 January 2018. Protodammara reimatamoriori, a new species of conifer (Cupressaceae) from the Upper Cretaceous Tupuangi Formation,…”
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The botanical provenance and taphonomy of Late Cretaceous Chatham amber, Chatham Islands, New Zealand by Mays, Chris, Coward, Andrew J., O'Dell, Luke A., Tappert, Ralf

“…Fossil resin (amber) has been recently reported as common, but small, sedimentary components throughout the lower Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian; 99–94 Ma)…”
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