Lyons notes that the factors controlling the rise of animals are under close scrutiny, including challenges to the long - held view that a major rise in atmospheric
oxygen concentrations triggered the event.
Not exact matches
By
triggering a process called autophagy — in which cells literally engulf their own insides — researchers from Drexel University and Yale University were able to decrease lung injury in mice that were exposed to high
concentrations of
oxygen.
This in turn
triggered decreases in marine phosphate
concentrations, productivity, organic carbon burial and ultimately
oxygen.
What does it take in terms of climate change / CO2
concentration to
trigger a large reduction in the ocean's
oxygen production?