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Insights from a dynamical system approach into the history of atmospheric oxygenation

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  • Mojtaba Fakhraee

    (Yale University)

  • Noah Planavsky

    (Yale University)

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Atmospheric oxygen levels are traditionally viewed to have been relatively stable throughout Earth’s history with several-step increases. Emerging evidence, however, suggests extremely dynamic atmospheric oxygen levels through large swaths of Earth’s history. Here, we provide a new perspective on atmospheric oxygen evolution using a dynamical analysis to explore the relative importance of previously proposed feedbacks on the global oxygen and carbon cycles. Our results from a stochastic analysis of oxygen mass balance in this framework suggest there are multiple steady states for atmospheric oxygen, but only three stable states. One stable state under anoxic conditions (

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  • Mojtaba Fakhraee & Noah Planavsky, 2024. "Insights from a dynamical system approach into the history of atmospheric oxygenation," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-51042-0
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51042-0
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