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Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen

Timothy M. Lenton, Tais W. Dahl, Stuart J. Daines, Benjamin J. W. Mills, Kazumi Ozaki, Matthew R. Saltzman, and Philipp Porada
PNAS published ahead of print August 15, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1604787113
Timothy M. Lenton
aEarth System Science, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, United Kingdom;
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  • For correspondence: t.m.lenton@exeter.ac.uk
Tais W. Dahl
bNatural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, DK-1350 Copenhagen, Denmark;
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Stuart J. Daines
aEarth System Science, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, United Kingdom;
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Benjamin J. W. Mills
aEarth System Science, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, United Kingdom;cSchool of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom;
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Kazumi Ozaki
dSchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0340;
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Matthew R. Saltzman
eSchool of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43214;
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Philipp Porada
fDepartment of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry, Stockholm University, SE-114 18 Stockholm, Sweden
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