The calm before the storm? Biotic responses to climate and environmental change in the final chapter of the Cretaceous Period Vrije Universiteit Brussel
caused the sudden biodiversity decline known as the CretaceousPaleogene boundary mass extinction, various studies have
suggested that gradual, but distinct, environmental changes related
to the terminal Cretaceous phase of the Deccan Traps Large Igneous
Province led to an accumulation of ecological stress in the last 0.5
million years before the ...