Abstract
A plant's guide to surviving the Chicxulub impact.
Highlights
What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘‘extinction?’’ Perhaps you imagine a critically endangered Giant Panda gnawing on bamboo or a tiger crouching in the brush amidst the seemly endless degradation of their habitats
There are about as many plant species as animals species that are considered to be critically endangered by extinction
What about the Chicxulub impact, the massive asteroid that collided with the Earth about 66 million years ago and almost certainly instigated the mass extinction that drove the non-avian dinosaurs and about 75% of the species on the planet extinct? Well, it turns out that this impact, at the boundary between the Cretaceous (K) and Paleogene (Pg) periods, has been implicated in the extinction of approximately half of all plant species that existed in North America at the time
Summary
What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘‘extinction?’’ Perhaps you imagine a critically endangered Giant Panda gnawing on bamboo or a tiger crouching in the brush amidst the seemly endless degradation of their habitats. What about the Chicxulub impact, the massive asteroid that collided with the Earth about 66 million years ago and almost certainly instigated the mass extinction that drove the non-avian dinosaurs and about 75% of the species on the planet extinct?
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