We applied this to marine and terrestrial data across the end-Triassic mass extinction (ETE) to compare how marine and terrestrial ecosystems responded to a catastrophic climate change event… and we did find that the marine and terrestrial realms respond very differently!

There’s a lot in this paper. But our main finding is that while marine ecosystems returned to ecological stability by the Sinemurian, terrestrial ecosystems were in a prolonged state of ecological flux and turnover well into the Aalenian. Why is this?