Publications

Carbon Cycle and Molecular Fossils at Yamaguchi University, Japan

2023

Saito, R., Wörmer, L., Taubner, H., Kaiho, K., Takahashi, S., Tian, L., Ikeda, M., Summons, R.E., Hinrichs, K.-U., 2023. Centennial scale sequences of environmental deterioration preceded the end-Permian mass extinction. Nature Communications 14.

Saito, R., Kaiho, K., Tian, L., Takahashi, S., 2023. Frequent high-temperature volcanic combustion events delayed biotic recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 614.

2022

Saito, R., Tian, L., Kaiho, K., Takahashi, S., 2022. Biomarker evidence for the prolongation of multiple phytoplankton blooms in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 600, 1-7.

Asahina, K., Takahashi, S., Saito, R., Kaiho, K., Oba, Y., 2022. Maleimide index: a paleo-redox index based on fragmented fossil-chlorophylls obtained by chromic acid oxidation. RSC Advances 12, 31061-31067.

Kaiho, K., Tanaka, D., Richoz, S., Jones, D.S., Saito, R., Kameyama, D., Ikeda, M., Takahashi, S., Aftabuzzaman, M., Fujibayashi, M., 2022. Volcanic temperature changes modulated volatile release and climate fluctuations at the end-Triassic mass extinction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 579, 117364.

2021

Aftabuzzaman, M., Kaiho, K., Biswas, R.K., Liu, Y., Saito, R., Tian, L., Bhat, G.M., Chen, Z.-Q., 2021. End-Permian terrestrial disturbance followed by the complete plant devastation, and the vegetation proto-recovery in the earliest-Triassic recorded in coastal sea sediments. Global and Planetary Change 205, 1-19.

2020

Biswas, R.K., Kaiho, K., Saito, R., Tian, L., Shi, Z., 2020. Terrestrial ecosystem collapse and soil erosion before the end-Permian marine extinction: Organic geochemical evidence from marine and non-marine records. Global and Planetary Change 195, 103327.

2017

Saito, R., Kaiho, K., Oba, M., Tong, J., Chen, Z.-Q., Tian, L., Takahashi, S., Fujibayashi, M., 2017. Tentative identification of diagenetic products of cyclic biphytanes in sedimentary rocks from the uppermost Permian and Lower Triassic. Organic Geochemistry 111, 144-153.

2016

Saito, R., Kaiho, K., Oba, M., Tong, J., Chen, Z.-Q., Takahashi, S., Chen, J., Tian, L., Biswas, R.K., 2016. Secular changes in environmental stresses and eukaryotes during the Early Triassic to the early Middle Triassic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 451, 35-45.

Kaiho, K., Oshima, N., Adachi, K., Adachi, Y., Mizukami, T., Fujibayashi, M., Saito, R., 2016a. Global climate change driven by soot at the K-Pg boundary as the cause of the mass extinction. Sci Rep 6, 28427.

Kaiho, K., Saito, R., Ito, K., Miyaji, T., Biswas, R., Tian, L., Sano, H., Shi, Z., Takahashi, S., Tong, J., Liang, L., Oba, M., Nara, F.W., Tsuchiya, N., Chen, Z.Q., 2016b. Effects of soil erosion and anoxic-euxinic ocean in the Permian-Triassic marine crisis. Heliyon 2, e00137.

2015

Saito, R., Kaiho, K., Oba, M., Fujibayashi, M., Tong, J., Tian, L., 2015. Predominance of archaea-derived hydrocarbons in an Early Triassic microbialite. Organic Geochemistry 85, 66-75.

2014

Saito, R., Oba, M., Kaiho, K., Schaeffer, P., Adam, P., Takahashi, S., Watanabe Nara, F., Chen, Z.-Q., Tong, J., Tsuchiya, N., 2014. Extreme euxinia just prior to the Middle Triassic biotic recovery from the latest Permian mass extinction. Organic Geochemistry 73, 113-122.

2013

Saito, R., Kaiho, K., Oba, M., Takahashi, S., Chen, Z.-Q., Tong, J., 2013a. A terrestrial vegetation turnover in the middle of the Early Triassic. Global and Planetary Change 105, 152-159.

Saito, R., Oba, M., Kaiho, K., Maruo, C., Fujibayashi, M., Chen, J., Chen, Z.-Q., Tong, J., 2013b. Ether lipids from the Lower and Middle Triassic at Qingyan, Guizhou Province, Southern China. Organic Geochemistry 58, 27-42.