生物集群灭绝
雨林
地质学
二叠纪-三叠纪灭绝事件
植被(病理学)
二叠纪
荧蒽
陆地生态系统
环境科学
生态系统
地球科学
生态学
自然地理学
菲
古生物学
环境化学
构造盆地
化学
生物
医学
病理
社会学
人口学
地理
生物扩散
人口
作者
S. Q. Jiao,Hua Zhang,Yao-feng Cai,Jianbo Chen,Zhuo Feng,Shu‐zhong Shen
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118193
摘要
The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) caused significant changes in the marine and terrestrial realms because of global environmental deterioration caused by intensive volcanic activities. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediments are powerful proxies indicating the frequency and intensity of wildfires during the Permian–Triassic (P–T) transition, providing critical information on floral turnovers and paleoclimatic conditions associated with P–T deforestation. In this study, we investigated high-resolution PAHs in a non-marine P–T transitional sequence from the HK-1 drill core at the Lengqinggou section of Southwest China. The consistency of the PAH distribution patterns as well as the positive correlation between the PAH contents in the whole sequence indicates that they are derived from the same source or process. Similarly, multiple PAH ratios (e.g., fluoranthene/(fluoranthene + pyrene)) changed dramatically with generally higher values in the Lopingian, indicating that the PAHs were more likely derived from a pyrogenic source (i.e., high-temperature wildfire events) compared to those in the Lower Triassic. The enrichment of PAHs at the HK-1 drill core in the terrestrial EPME interval indicates that the paleotropical rainforest ecosystem provided sufficient fuel for large-scale high-temperature wildfire combustion events. Furthermore, the extremely low PAH contents in the Lower Triassic indicated a fuel shortage after the mass deforestation, the highly diversified rainforest assemblage disappeared and was replaced with herbaceous, hinterland-like vegetation. The high coronene/phenanthrene ratio and coronene index indicated that although vegetation was scarce, high-temperature burning events were still common in the Lower Triassic, this evidence further supports the vegetation changeover during the P–T transition. These results indicate that intensified high-temperature wildfire combustion events in the paleotropical rainforest in Southwest China occurred because of global warming and aridity caused by intensive volcanic activities during the P–T transition.
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