High-temperature wildfire during end-Permian caused collapse of tropical rainforest ecosystems, suggests study

A joint research group from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing University and Yunnan University confirmed that large-scale, high-temperature wildfires led to the largest of five mass extinctions and the changeover of vegetation during the Permian-Triassic transition period, approximately 251.9 million years ago.

High-temperature wildfire during end-Permian caused collapse of tropical rainforest ecosystems, suggests study

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