Advanced search

Filter By:

Journal Check one or more journals to show results from those journals only.

Choose more journals

Article type Check one or more article types to show results from those article types only.
Subject Check one or more subjects to show results from those subjects only.
Date Choose a date option to show results from those dates only.

Custom date range

Clear all filters
Sort by:
Showing 1–17 of 17 results
Advanced filters: Author: "D. J. Beerling" Clear advanced filters

  • Two genes controlling the transcriptional network involved in stomatal development in Arabidopsis thaliana have a conserved function in the non-vascular moss Physcomitrella patens. Moss mutants without stomata show delayed capsule dehiscence.

    • Caspar C. Chater
    • Robert S. Caine
    • David J. Beerling
    Research
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 2, P: 1-7

  • Symbiotic fungi are thought to have assisted plants in their colonization of the land. In this study, it is shown that mycorrhizal fungi symbiosis with liverwort, a member of an ancient clade of land plants, promotes photosynthetic carbon uptake and growth, supporting the role of fungi in 'the greening of the Earth'.

    • Claire P. Humphreys
    • Peter J. Franks
    • David J. Beerling
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 1, P: 1-7

  • A detailed assessment of the techno-economic potential of enhanced rock weathering on croplands identifies national CO2 removal potentials, costs and engineering challenges if it were to be scaled up to help meet ambitious global CO2 removal targets.

    • David J. Beerling
    • Euripides P. Kantzas
    • Steven A. Banwart
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 583, P: 242-248

  • Destruction of the Earth’s ozone shield due to the release of hydrogen sulphide and methane has been suggested as a cause of mass extinctions during periods of ocean anoxia over the past two billion years. This mechanism does not explain the end-Permian mass extinction, according to simulations with a two-dimensional atmospheric chemistry-transport model, which show that the ozone shield remains intact even with massive releases of hydrogen sulphide and methane.

    • Michael B. Harfoot
    • John A. Pyle
    • David J. Beerling
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 1, P: 247-252

  • Carbon isotopes of fossil plants and model simulations suggest that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were variable during the period 200 to 60 million years ago. The large decreases in the partial pressure of CO2 coincide with glaciations, providing evidence against climate–CO2 decoupling during the Mesozoic.

    • Benjamin J. Fletcher
    • Stuart J. Brentnall
    • David J. Beerling
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 1, P: 43-48

  • Theoretical analyses reveal how plant investment in the architecture of leaf veins can be shuffled for different conditions, minimizing the construction costs associated with supplying water to leaves.

    • David J. Beerling
    • Peter J. Franks
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 464, P: 495-496

  • The chemical breakdown of rocks can be enhanced by spreading silicate granules over land. Research suggests that this measure, which increases the rate at which CO2 is locked up in ocean carbonates, could lower atmospheric CO2 by 30–300 ppm by 2100.

    • Lyla L. Taylor
    • Joe Quirk
    • David J. Beerling
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 6, P: 402-406

  • Global warming 55 million years ago was accompanied by a massive injection of carbon into the ocean-atmosphere system, but the resulting climatic warming was much greater than expected from the modelled rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide alone.

    • David J. Beerling
    News & Views
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 2, P: 537-538

  • Reconstructions of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 65 million years are heading towards consensus. It is time for systematic testing of the proxies, against measurements and against each other.

    • David J. Beerling
    • Dana L. Royer
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 4, P: 418-420

  • Buried in a notebook from his undergraduate days lie Newton's musings on the movement of sap in trees. Viewed in conjunction with our modern understanding of plant hydrodynamics, his speculations seem prescient.

    • David J. Beerling
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 1, P: 1-3

  • Agriculture attempts to satisfy the demand for food of a growing human population but contributes to environmental degradation. However, there are technological options for agriculture to deliver food security and potentially reduce atmospheric CO2.

    • Peter Horton
    • Stephen P. Long
    • David J. Beerling
    Reviews
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 7, P: 250-255

  • To reduce climate warming we must stop adding CO2 to the atmopshere, and develop approaches for removing it. Adding crushed, fast-reacting silicate rocks to croplands could improve productivity, restore soil quality and reduce atmospheric CO2.

    • David J. Beerling
    • Jonathan R. Leake
    • James Hansen
    Reviews
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 4, P: 138-147