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Scott L. Wing
Researcher at National Museum of Natural History
Publications - 162
Citations - 14760
Scott L. Wing is an academic researcher from National Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Geology & Anthropocene. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 146 publications receiving 13049 citations. Previous affiliations of Scott L. Wing include Yale University & Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents
TL;DR: Evidence now supports the idea that humans contributed to extinction on some continents, but human hunting was not solely responsible for the pattern of extinction everywhere, and suggests that the intersection of human impacts with pronounced climatic change drove the precise timing and geography of extinction in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Global patterns in leaf 13C discrimination and implications for studies of past and future climate
TL;DR: A 4.6‰ decline in the δ13C of atmospheric CO2 is estimated at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, an abrupt global warming event ∼55.8 Ma, leading to better constraints on past greenhouse-gas perturbations.
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The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: A Perturbation of Carbon Cycle, Climate, and Biosphere with Implications for the Future
TL;DR: During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), ∼56 Mya, thousands of petagrams of carbon were released into the ocean-atmosphere system with attendant changes in the carbon cycle, climate, ocean chem- istry, and marine and continental ecosystems as discussed by the authors.
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Transient Floral Change and Rapid Global Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary
Scott L. Wing,Guy J. Harrington,F. A. Smith,F. A. Smith,Jonathan I. Bloch,Douglas M. Boyer,Katherine H. Freeman +6 more
TL;DR: Floral response to warming and/or increased atmospheric CO2 during the PETM was comparable in rate and magnitude to that seen in postglacial floras and to the predicted effects of anthropogenic carbon release and climate change on future vegetation.
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Eocene continental climates and latitudinal temperature gradients
David R. Greenwood,Scott L. Wing +1 more
TL;DR: Paleontological data indicate mild temperatures even at high latitudes and in mid-latitude continental interiors, whereas computer simulations of continental paleoclimates produce winter temperatures closer to modern levels as mentioned in this paper.