List of works - Jennifer C. McElwain

19th Sir peter freyer memorial lecture and surgical symposium 16th and 17th September 1994

70 MILLION YEARS OF VEGETATION DYNAMICS

scientific article published in 2008

A gymnosperm affinity for Ricciisporites tuberculatus Lundblad: implications for vegetation and environmental reconstructions in the Late Triassic

A new transfer technique to extract and process thin and fragmented fossil cuticle using polyester overlays

An explanation for conflicting records of Triassic-Jurassic plant diversity

scientific article

An organic record of terrestrial ecosystem collapse and recovery at the Triassic–Jurassic boundary in East Greenland

article

Ancient Atmospheres and the Evolution of Oxygen Sensing Via the Hypoxia-Inducible Factor in Metazoans ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Baseline intrinsic flammability of Earth's ecosystems estimated from paleoatmospheric oxygen over the past 350 million years

scientific article (publication date: 28 December 2010)

Bennettitalean leaf cuticle fragments (here Anomozamites and Pterophyllum) can be used interchangeably in stomatal frequency-based palaeo-CO₂ reconstructions

scientific article published in 2011

Bipinnate Ptilozamites nilssonii from Jameson Land and new considerations on the genera Ptilozamites Nathorst 1878 and Ctenozamites Nathorst 1886

CO₂-induced biochemical changes in leaf volatiles decreased fire-intensity in the run-up to the Triassic–Jurassic boundary

scholarly article

Can atmospheric composition influence plant fossil preservation potential via changes in leaf mass per area? A new hypothesis based on simulated palaeoatmosphere experiments ⬇️

article

Carbon sequestration activated by a volcanic CO2 pulse during Ocean Anoxic Event 2

scholarly article by Richard S. Barclay et al published 7 February 2010 in Nature Geoscience

Carboniferous plant physiology breaks the mold

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Carbon‐Cycle Perturbation in the Middle Jurassic and Accompanying Changes in the Terrestrial Paleoenvironment

article

Changes in carbon dioxide during an oceanic anoxic event linked to intrusion into Gondwana coals

scientific article

Climate, pCO₂ and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial–interglacial cycles

article

Climate-independent paleoaltimetry using stomatal density in fossil leaves as a proxy for CO2 partial pressure

scholarly article

Climate-independent paleoaltimetry using stomatal density in fossil leaves as a proxy for CO2 partial pressure: Comment and Reply: REPLY

scholarly article

Co-ordination in Morphological Leaf Traits of Early Diverging Angiosperms Is Maintained Following Exposure to Experimental Palaeo-atmospheric Conditions of Sub-ambient O₂ and Elevated CO₂

scientific article

Co-ordination of physiological and morphological responses of stomata to elevated [CO₂] in vascular plants

scientific article

Correction: Increasing stomatal conductance in response to rising atmospheric CO₂

scientific article published in June 2018

Corrigendum: Palaeo leaf economics reveal a shift in ecosystem function associated with the end-Triassic mass extinction event

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Cretaceous CO2 Decline and the Radiation and Diversification of Angiosperms

Cycads show no stomatal-density and index response to elevated carbon dioxide and subambient oxygen

article

Damage structures in leaf epidermis and cuticle as an indicator of elevated atmospheric sulphur dioxide in early Mesozoic floras

article

Deep-time evidence of a link between elevated CO₂ concentrations and perturbations in the hydrological cycle via drop in plant transpiration

article

Differences in the photosynthetic plasticity of ferns and Ginkgo grown in experimentally controlled low [O₂]:[CO₂] atmospheres may explain their contrasting ecological fate across the Triassic–Jurassic mass extinction boundary

scientific article published on 11 March 2017

Differences in the response sensitivity of stomatal index to atmospheric CO₂ among four genera of Cupressaceae conifers

scientific article (publication date: March 2010)

Do fossil plants signal palaeoatmospheric carbon dioxide concentration in the geological past?

scientific article (publication date: 29 January 1998)

Does Size Matter? Atmospheric CO₂ May Be a Stronger Driver of Stomatal Closing Rate Than Stomatal Size in Taxa That Diversified under Low CO₂

scientific article

Dynamic Carboniferous tropical forests: new views of plant function and potential for physiological forcing of climate

scientific article

EVIDENCE FOR INSECT AND ANNELID ACTIVITY ACROSS THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC TRANSITION OF EAST GREENLAND

article

Evolutionary differences in Δ13C detected between spore and seed bearing plants following exposure to a range of atmospheric O2:CO2 ratios; implications for paleoatmosphere reconstruction ⬇️

article

Evolutionary trade-offs in stomatal spacing

scientific article

Extremely elevated CO₂ concentrations at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary

article

Ferns: a xylem success story

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Fossil Plants and Global Warming at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary.

scientific article

Fossil plant relative abundances indicate sudden loss of Late Triassic biodiversity in East Greenland

scientific article

Fossil plant stomata indicate decreasing atmospheric CO₂ prior to the Eocene–Oligocene boundary

article

Functional traits of fossil plants

scientific article published in 2024

Genome-wide transcriptomic analysis of the effects of sub-ambient atmospheric oxygen and elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on gametophytes of the moss, Physcomitrella patens

scientific article published on 6 May 2015

Heritable Changes in Physiological Gas Exchange Traits in Response to Long-Term, Moderate Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Higher species richness enhances yield stability in intensively managed grasslands with experimental disturbance

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Hot, dry, wet, cold or toxic? Revisiting the ecological significance of leaf and cuticular micromorphology

article

How well do you know your growth chambers? Testing for chamber effect using plant traits

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

Increased atmospheric SO₂ detected from changes in leaf physiognomy across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary interval of East Greenland

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Increased fire activity at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in Greenland due to climate-driven floral change

article

Increasing stomatal conductance in response to rising atmospheric CO₂

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Limits for Combustion in Low O₂ Redefine Paleoatmospheric Predictions for the Mesozoic

scientific article published in August 2008

Long-term fluctuations in atmospheric CO2 concentration influence plant speciation rates

article

Macroecological responses of terrestrial vegetation to climatic and atmospheric change across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in East Greenland

article

Mass extinction events and the plant fossil record

scientific article

Mid-Cretaceous pCO₂ based on stomata of the extinct conifer Pseudofrenelopsis (Cheirolepidiaceae)

scholarly article

New methods reveal oldest known fossil epiphyllous moss: Bryiidites utahensis gen. et sp. nov. (Bryidae).

scientific article

On the reconstruction of plant photosynthetic and stress physiology across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary

article

Palaeo leaf economics reveal a shift in ecosystem function associated with the end-Triassic mass extinction event. ⬇️

scientific article

Palaeobotany

scholarly article

Palaeobotany: New ways with old fossils

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Paleobotany and Global Change: Important Lessons for Species to Biomes from Vegetation Responses to Past Global Change

article

Paleoecology, Ploidy, Paleoatmospheric Composition, and Developmental Biology: A Review of the Multiple Uses of Fossil Stomata

scientific article

Palynostratigraphy and vegetation history of the Triassic–Jurassic transition in East Greenland

article

Past climates inform our future

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Plant responses to decadal scale increments in atmospheric CO2 concentration: comparing two stomatal conductance sampling methods

scientific article published on 16 January 2020

Quantitative estimates of glacial and Holocene temperature and precipitation change in lowland Amazonian Bolivia

article

Reply to comment on “Was atmospheric CO 2 capped at 1000 ppm over the past 300 million years?” [Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 441 (2016) 653–658]

scholarly article by Jennifer C. McElwain published in April 2017

Reply to the comment on “Hot, dry, wet, cold or toxic? Revisiting the ecological significance of leaf cuticular micromorphology” by M. Haworth and J.C. McElwain [Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 262 (2008) 79-90]

article

Rising CO2 drives divergence in water use efficiency of evergreen and deciduous plants

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Searching for a nearest living equivalent for Bennettitales: a promising extinct plant group for stomatal proxy reconstructions of Mesozoic pCO₂

scientific article published in 2021

Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate within Acer rubrum and Quercus kelloggii

scientific article published on 27 May 2008

Stomatal Frequency Change Over Altitudinal Gradients: Prospects for Paleoaltimetry

article by L. L.R. Kouwenberg et al published 1 October 2007 in Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Stomatal control as a driver of plant evolution

article

Stomatal frequency adjustment of four conifer species to historical changes in atmospheric CO2.

scientific article published in April 2003

Stomatal index responses of Agrostis canina to CO₂ and sulphur dioxide: implications for palaeo-[CO₂] using the stomatal proxy

scientific article published on November 2010

Sulphur dioxide fumigation effects on stomatal density and index of non-resistant plants: Implications for the stomatal palaeo-[CO2] proxy method

article

Testing the accuracy of new paleoatmospheric CO2 proxies based on plant stable carbon isotopic composition and stomatal traits in a range of simulated paleoatmospheric O2:CO2 ratios

scientific article

The Fossil Cuticle as a Skeletal Record of Environmental Change

article by Jennifer C. McElwain & William G. Chaloner published August 1996 in PALAIOS

The Life and Times of a Living Fossil

scientific article

The influence of climate on the spatial patterning of Neotropical plant families

article

The severity of wheat diseases increases when plants and pathogens are acclimatized to elevated carbon dioxide

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

The stomatal CO₂ proxy does not saturate at high atmospheric CO₂ concentrations: evidence from stomatal index responses of Araucariaceae conifers

scientific article published on 3 April 2011

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO <sub>2</sub>

scientific article published on 8 December 2023

Tracking taphonomic regimes using chemical and mechanical damage of pollen and spores: an example from the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Using modern plant trait relationships between observed and theoretical maximum stomatal conductance and vein density to examine patterns of plant macroevolution

scientific article

Was atmospheric CO2 capped at 1000 ppm over the past 300 million years?

scholarly article by Jennifer C. McElwain published in January 2016

cuticle

article in Encyclopedia of Environmental Change

List of works by Jennifer C. McElwain

19th Sir peter freyer memorial lecture and surgical symposium 16th and 17th September 1994

70 MILLION YEARS OF VEGETATION DYNAMICS

A gymnosperm affinity for Ricciisporites tuberculatus Lundblad: implications for vegetation and environmental reconstructions in the Late Triassic

A new transfer technique to extract and process thin and fragmented fossil cuticle using polyester overlays

An explanation for conflicting records of Triassic-Jurassic plant diversity

An organic record of terrestrial ecosystem collapse and recovery at the Triassic–Jurassic boundary in East Greenland

Ancient Atmospheres and the Evolution of Oxygen Sensing Via the Hypoxia-Inducible Factor in Metazoans ⬇️

Baseline intrinsic flammability of Earth's ecosystems estimated from paleoatmospheric oxygen over the past 350 million years

Bennettitalean leaf cuticle fragments (here Anomozamites and Pterophyllum) can be used interchangeably in stomatal frequency-based palaeo-CO₂ reconstructions

Bipinnate Ptilozamites nilssonii from Jameson Land and new considerations on the genera Ptilozamites Nathorst 1878 and Ctenozamites Nathorst 1886

CO₂-induced biochemical changes in leaf volatiles decreased fire-intensity in the run-up to the Triassic–Jurassic boundary

Can atmospheric composition influence plant fossil preservation potential via changes in leaf mass per area? A new hypothesis based on simulated palaeoatmosphere experiments ⬇️

Carbon sequestration activated by a volcanic CO2 pulse during Ocean Anoxic Event 2

Carboniferous plant physiology breaks the mold

Carbon‐Cycle Perturbation in the Middle Jurassic and Accompanying Changes in the Terrestrial Paleoenvironment

Changes in carbon dioxide during an oceanic anoxic event linked to intrusion into Gondwana coals

Climate, pCO₂ and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial–interglacial cycles

Climate-independent paleoaltimetry using stomatal density in fossil leaves as a proxy for CO2 partial pressure

Climate-independent paleoaltimetry using stomatal density in fossil leaves as a proxy for CO2 partial pressure: Comment and Reply: REPLY

Co-ordination in Morphological Leaf Traits of Early Diverging Angiosperms Is Maintained Following Exposure to Experimental Palaeo-atmospheric Conditions of Sub-ambient O₂ and Elevated CO₂

Co-ordination of physiological and morphological responses of stomata to elevated [CO₂] in vascular plants

Correction: Increasing stomatal conductance in response to rising atmospheric CO₂

Corrigendum: Palaeo leaf economics reveal a shift in ecosystem function associated with the end-Triassic mass extinction event

Cretaceous CO2 Decline and the Radiation and Diversification of Angiosperms

Cycads show no stomatal-density and index response to elevated carbon dioxide and subambient oxygen

Damage structures in leaf epidermis and cuticle as an indicator of elevated atmospheric sulphur dioxide in early Mesozoic floras

Deep-time evidence of a link between elevated CO₂ concentrations and perturbations in the hydrological cycle via drop in plant transpiration

Differences in the photosynthetic plasticity of ferns and Ginkgo grown in experimentally controlled low [O₂]:[CO₂] atmospheres may explain their contrasting ecological fate across the Triassic–Jurassic mass extinction boundary

Differences in the response sensitivity of stomatal index to atmospheric CO₂ among four genera of Cupressaceae conifers

Do fossil plants signal palaeoatmospheric carbon dioxide concentration in the geological past?

Does Size Matter? Atmospheric CO₂ May Be a Stronger Driver of Stomatal Closing Rate Than Stomatal Size in Taxa That Diversified under Low CO₂

Dynamic Carboniferous tropical forests: new views of plant function and potential for physiological forcing of climate

EVIDENCE FOR INSECT AND ANNELID ACTIVITY ACROSS THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC TRANSITION OF EAST GREENLAND

Evolutionary differences in Δ13C detected between spore and seed bearing plants following exposure to a range of atmospheric O2:CO2 ratios; implications for paleoatmosphere reconstruction ⬇️

Evolutionary trade-offs in stomatal spacing

Extremely elevated CO₂ concentrations at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary

Ferns: a xylem success story

Fossil Plants and Global Warming at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary.

Fossil plant relative abundances indicate sudden loss of Late Triassic biodiversity in East Greenland

Fossil plant stomata indicate decreasing atmospheric CO₂ prior to the Eocene–Oligocene boundary

Functional traits of fossil plants

Genome-wide transcriptomic analysis of the effects of sub-ambient atmospheric oxygen and elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on gametophytes of the moss, Physcomitrella patens

Heritable Changes in Physiological Gas Exchange Traits in Response to Long-Term, Moderate Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment

Higher species richness enhances yield stability in intensively managed grasslands with experimental disturbance

Hot, dry, wet, cold or toxic? Revisiting the ecological significance of leaf and cuticular micromorphology

How well do you know your growth chambers? Testing for chamber effect using plant traits

Increased atmospheric SO₂ detected from changes in leaf physiognomy across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary interval of East Greenland

Increased fire activity at the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in Greenland due to climate-driven floral change

Increasing stomatal conductance in response to rising atmospheric CO₂

Limits for Combustion in Low O₂ Redefine Paleoatmospheric Predictions for the Mesozoic

Long-term fluctuations in atmospheric CO2 concentration influence plant speciation rates

Macroecological responses of terrestrial vegetation to climatic and atmospheric change across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary in East Greenland

Mass extinction events and the plant fossil record

Mid-Cretaceous pCO₂ based on stomata of the extinct conifer Pseudofrenelopsis (Cheirolepidiaceae)

New methods reveal oldest known fossil epiphyllous moss: Bryiidites utahensis gen. et sp. nov. (Bryidae).

On the reconstruction of plant photosynthetic and stress physiology across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary

Palaeo leaf economics reveal a shift in ecosystem function associated with the end-Triassic mass extinction event. ⬇️

Palaeobotany

Palaeobotany: New ways with old fossils

Paleobotany and Global Change: Important Lessons for Species to Biomes from Vegetation Responses to Past Global Change

Paleoecology, Ploidy, Paleoatmospheric Composition, and Developmental Biology: A Review of the Multiple Uses of Fossil Stomata

Palynostratigraphy and vegetation history of the Triassic–Jurassic transition in East Greenland

Past climates inform our future

Plant responses to decadal scale increments in atmospheric CO2 concentration: comparing two stomatal conductance sampling methods

Quantitative estimates of glacial and Holocene temperature and precipitation change in lowland Amazonian Bolivia

Reply to comment on “Was atmospheric CO 2 capped at 1000 ppm over the past 300 million years?” [Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 441 (2016) 653–658]

Reply to the comment on “Hot, dry, wet, cold or toxic? Revisiting the ecological significance of leaf cuticular micromorphology” by M. Haworth and J.C. McElwain [Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 262 (2008) 79-90]

Rising CO2 drives divergence in water use efficiency of evergreen and deciduous plants

Searching for a nearest living equivalent for Bennettitales: a promising extinct plant group for stomatal proxy reconstructions of Mesozoic pCO₂

Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate within Acer rubrum and Quercus kelloggii

Stomatal Frequency Change Over Altitudinal Gradients: Prospects for Paleoaltimetry

Stomatal control as a driver of plant evolution

Stomatal frequency adjustment of four conifer species to historical changes in atmospheric CO2.

Stomatal index responses of Agrostis canina to CO₂ and sulphur dioxide: implications for palaeo-[CO₂] using the stomatal proxy

Sulphur dioxide fumigation effects on stomatal density and index of non-resistant plants: Implications for the stomatal palaeo-[CO2] proxy method

Testing the accuracy of new paleoatmospheric CO2 proxies based on plant stable carbon isotopic composition and stomatal traits in a range of simulated paleoatmospheric O2:CO2 ratios

The Fossil Cuticle as a Skeletal Record of Environmental Change

The Life and Times of a Living Fossil

The influence of climate on the spatial patterning of Neotropical plant families