Open AccessIntroduction. Photosynthetic and atmospheric evolution
Author(s) -
Derek S. Bendall,
Christopher J. Howe,
Euan Nisbet,
R. Ellen R. Nisbet
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1471-2970
pISSN - 0962-8436
DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2008.0058
Subject(s) - photosynthesis , c4 photosynthesis , biology , astrobiology , environmental science , ecology , evolutionary biology , botany
The evolution of photosynthesis remade the Archaean Earth. Before photosynthesis, the air and oceans were anoxic. Now the air is a biological construction, a fifth of which is free molecular oxygen, and the ocean can sustain animal life even in the depths. The evolution, first of anoxygenic and then
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