The end-Cretaceous plant extinction: Heterogeneity, ecosystem transformation, and insights for the future

• Published in: Cambridge Prisms: Extinction Vol. 1; p. e14
• Main Authors: Wilf, Peter, Carvalho, Mónica R., Stiles, Elena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Cambridge University Press 2023
• Subjects: Angiosperms; anthropogenic extinctions; extinction legacies; land plants; Mass Extinction; Review; Species Extinction; anthropogenic extinctions; mass extinction; extinction legacies; Angiosperms; land plants

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction was geologically instantaneous, causing the most drastic extinction rates in Earth’s History. The rapid species losses and environmental destruction from the Chicxulub impact at 66.02 Ma made the K–Pg the most comparable past event to today’s projected...