Yr Athro Paul Pearson

2025

• Boscolo-Galazzo, F. et al., 2025. Exploring macroevolutionary links in multi-species planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and δ18O from 15 Ma to recent. Biogeosciences 22 , pp.1095–1113. (10.5194/bg-22-1095-2025)

2024

• Procter, F. A. et al., 2024. Electron backscatter diffraction analysis unveils foraminiferal calcite microstructure and processes of diagenetic alteration. Biogeosciences 21 (5), pp.1213–1233. (10.5194/bg-21-1213-2024)

2023

• John, E. H. et al. 2023. Revealing their true stripes: Mg/Ca banding in the Paleogene planktonic foraminifera genus Morozovella and implications for paleothermometry. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38 (9) e2023PA004652. (10.1029/2023PA004652)
• Latas, M. et al., 2023. Globigerinoides rublobatus - a new species of Pleistocene planktonic foraminifera. Journal of Micropalaeontology 42 (2), pp.57–81. (10.5194/jm-42-57-2023)
• Crichton, K. A. et al., 2023. What the geological past can tell us about the future of the ocean’s twilight zone. Nature Communications 14 (1) 2376. (10.1038/s41467-023-37781-6)

2022

• Zammit, R. et al. 2022. Early Miocene intensification of the North African hydrological cycle: multi‐proxy evidence from the shelf carbonates of Malta. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 37 (9) e2022PA004414. (10.1029/2022pa004414)
• Pearson, P. N. et al. 2022. Spine-like structures in Paleogene muricate planktonic foraminifera. Journal of Micropalaeontology 41 (2), pp.107-127. (10.5194/jm-41-107-2022)
• Boscolo Galazzo, F. et al. 2022. Late Neogene evolution of modern deep-dwelling plankton. Biogeosciences 19 (3), pp.743-762. (10.5194/bg-19-743-2022)

2021

• Steinthorsdottir, M. et al., 2021. The Miocene: the future of the past. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 36 (4) e2020PA004037. (10.1029/2020PA004037)
• Pearson, P. and Penny, L. 2021. Coiling directions in the planktonic foraminifer Pulleniatina: a complex eco-evolutionary dynamic spanning millions of years. PLoS ONE 16 (4) e0249113. (10.1371/journal.pone.0249113)
• Boscolo Galazzo, F. et al. 2021. Temperature controls carbon cycling and biological evolution in the ocean twilight zone. Science 371 (6534), pp.1148-1152. (10.1126/science.abb6643)
• Hutchinson, D. K. et al., 2021. The Eocene-Oligocene transition: a review of marine and terrestrial proxy data, models and model-data comparisons. Climate of the Past 17 (1), pp.269-315. (10.5194/cp-17-269-2021)

2020

• Anagnostou, E. et al., 2020. Proxy evidence for state-dependence of climate sensitivity in the Eocene greenhouse. Nature Communications 11 4436. (10.1038/s41467-020-17887-x)
• Maselli, V. et al., 2020. Large-scale mass wasting in the western Indian Ocean constrains onset of East African rifting. Nature Communications 11 (1) 3456. (10.1038/s41467-020-17267-5)
• Henehan, M. J. et al., 2020. Revisiting the middle eocene climatic pptimum ‘carbon cycle conundrum’ with new estimates of atmospheric pCO2 from boron isotopes. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35 (6) e2019PA003713. (10.1029/2019PA003713)
• Crichton, K. A. et al. 2020. Calibration of key temperature-dependent ocean microbial processes in the cGENIE.muffin Earth system model. Geoscientific Model Development 14 , pp.125-149. (10.5194/gmd-2019-344)
• Edgar, K. M. et al. 2020. New composite bio- and isotope stratigraphies spanning the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum at tropical ODP Site 865 in the Pacific Ocean. Journal of Micropalaeontology 39 , pp.117-138. (10.5194/jm-39-117-2020)

2018

• Wade, B. et al., 2018. Atlas of Oligocene Planktonic Foraminifera. London: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.
• Boscolo-Galazzo, F. et al. 2018. Temperature dependency of metabolic rates in the upper ocean: A positive feedback to global climate change?. Global and Planetary Change 170 , pp.201-212. (10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.08.017)
• Spence, E. , Pidgeon, N. and Pearson, P. 2018. UK public perceptions of ocean acidification - the importance of place and environmental identity. Marine Policy 97 , pp.287-293. (10.1016/j.marpol.2018.04.006)
• Fordham, B. G. et al., 2018. Future-proofing the Cenozoic macroperforate planktonic foraminifera phylogeny of Aze & others (2011). PLoS ONE 13 (10) e0204625. (10.1371/journal.pone.0204625)
• Fenton, I. S. et al., 2018. Factors affecting consistency and accuracy in identifying modern macroperforate planktonic foraminifera. Journal of Micropalaeontology 37 (2), pp.431-443. (10.5194/jm-37-431-2018)
• Sosdian, S. M. et al. 2018. Constraining the evolution of Neogene ocean carbonate chemistry using the boron isotope pH proxy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 498 , pp.362-376. (10.1016/j.epsl.2018.06.017)
• Evans, D. et al., 2018. Eocene greenhouse climate revealed by coupled clumped isotope - Mg/Ca thermometry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (6), pp.1174-1179. (10.1073/pnas.1714744115)
• Berggren, W. A. , Wade, B. S. and Pearson, P. N. 2018. Oligocene chronostratigraphy and planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy: historical review and current state-of-the art. In: Wade, B. S. et al., Atlas of Oligocene Planktonic Foraminifera. Vol. 46, London: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research. , pp.29-54.
• Pearson, P. N. and IODP Expedition 363 Scientific Party, 2018. A deep-sea agglutinated foraminifer tube constructed with planktonic foraminifer shells of a single species. Journal of Micropalaeontology 37 , pp.97-104. (10.5194/jm-37-97-2018)
• Martino, E. D. et al., 2018. First bryozoan fauna from the Eocene-Oligocene transition in Tanzania. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16 (3), pp.225-243. (10.1080/14772019.2017.1284163)

2017

• Cotton, L. J. et al., 2017. Pteropoda (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Thecosomata) from the Eocene/Oligocene boundary interval of three cored boreholes in southern coastal Tanzania and their response to the global cooling event. Palaeontologia Electronica 20 (3), pp.1-21.
• Gutjahr, M. et al., 2017. Very large release of mostly volcanic carbon during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. Nature 548 , pp.573-577. (10.1038/nature23646)
• Pearson, P. N. 2017. Provenance and identity of a large bronze statue currently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Journal of the History of Collections 30 (1), pp.35-48. (10.1093/jhc/fhx016)
• Pearson, P. et al. 2017. Sub-series and sub-epochs are informal units and should continue to be omitted from the International Chronostratigraphic Chart. Episodes 40 (1), pp.5-7. (10.18814/epiiugs/2017/v40i1/017002)
• Lunt, D. J. et al., 2017. The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM (version 1.0). Geoscientific Model Development 10 (2), pp.889-901. (10.5194/gmd-10-889-2017)

2016

• Fenton, I. S. et al., 2016. Environmental predictors of diversity in recent planktonic foraminifera as recorded in marine sediments. PLoS ONE 11 (11), pp.e0165522. (10.1371/journal.pone.0165522)
• Cotton, L. J. and Pearson, P. N. 2016. Integrated stratigraphy of the Priabonian (upper Eocene) Urtsadzor section, Armenia. Newsletters on Stratigraphy (10.1127/nos/2016/0313)
• Capstick, S. B. et al. 2016. Public understanding in Great Britain of ocean acidification. Nature Climate Change 6 , pp.763-767. (10.1038/nclimate3005)
• Anagnostou, E. et al., 2016. Changing atmospheric CO2 concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate. Nature 533 , pp.380-384. (10.1038/nature17423)
• Fenton, I. S. et al., 2016. The impact of Cenozoic cooling on assemblage diversity in planktonic foraminifera. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 371 (1691) 20150224. (10.1098/rstb.2015.0224)
• Birch, H. et al., 2016. Partial collapse of the marine carbon pump after the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Geology 44 (4), pp.287-290. (10.1130/G37581.1)
• Cotton, L. J. , Pearson, P. N. and Renema, W. 2016. A new eocene lineage of reticulate Nummulites (Foraminifera) from Kilwa district, Tanzania; a place for Nummulites ptukhiani?. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14 (7), pp.569-579. (10.1080/14772019.2015.1079562)

2015

• Edgar, K. M. et al. 2015. Assessing the impact of diagenesis on δ11B, δ13C, δ18O, Sr/Ca and B/Ca values in fossil planktic foraminiferal calcite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 166 , pp.189-209. (10.1016/j.gca.2015.06.018)
• Inglis, G. N. et al., 2015. Descent toward the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions. Paleoceanography 30 (7), pp.1000-1020. (10.1002/2014PA002723)
• Spezzaferri, S. et al., 2015. Fossil and genetic evidence for the polyphyletic nature of the planktonic foraminifera "Globigerinoides", and description of the new genus Trilobatus. PLoS ONE 10 (5) e0128108. (10.1371/journal.pone.0128108)
• Pearson, P. N. and Thomas, E. 2015. Drilling disturbance and constraints on the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene boundary carbon isotope excursion in New Jersey. Climate of the Past 11 (1), pp.95-104. (10.5194/cp-11-95-2015)
• Pearson, P. N. , Evans, S. L. and Evans, J. 2015. Effect of diagenetic recrystallization on the strength of planktonic foraminifer tests under compression. Journal of Micropalaeontology 34 (1), pp.59-64. (10.1144/jmpaleo2013-032)
• Pearson, P. N. and Wade, B. S. 2015. Systematic taxonomy of exceptionally well-preserved planktonic foraminifera from the Eocene/Oligocene boundary of Tanzania. Special Publication 45: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research , pp.1-85.

2014

• Pearson, P. N. and Hudson, W. 2014. Early Cenozoic tropical climate: report from the Tanzania Onshore Paleogene Integrated Coring (TOPIC) workshop. Scientific Drilling 18 , pp.13-17. (10.5194/sd-18-13-2014)
• John, E. H. et al. 2014. Temperature-dependent remineralization and carbon cycling in the warm Eocene oceans. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 413 , pp.158-166. (10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.019)
• Aze, T. et al. 2014. Extreme warming of tropical waters during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Geology 42 (9), pp.739-742. (10.1130/G35637.1)
• Pearson, P. N. and Nicholas, C. J. 2014. Layering in the Paleocene/Eocene boundary of the Millville core is drilling disturbance [Letter]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (12), pp.E1064-E1065. (10.1073/pnas.1322077111)
• Pearson, P. N. and Coxall, H. K. 2014. Origin of the Eocene planktonic foraminifer Hantkenina by gradual evolution. Palaeontology 57 (2), pp.243-267. (10.1111/pala.12064)
• Cotton, L. J. , Pearson, P. N. and Renema, W. 2014. Stable isotope stratigraphy and larger benthic foraminiferal extinctions in the Melinau Limestone, Sarawak. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 79 (A), pp.65-71. (10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.09.025)

2013

• Pearson, P. N. and Ezard, T. H. G. 2013. Evolution and speciation in the Eocene planktonic foraminifer Turborotalia. Paleobiology 40 (1), pp.130-143. (10.1666/13004)
• Aze, T. et al. 2013. Identifying anagenesis and cladogenesis in the fossil record [Letter]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (32) E2946. (10.1073/pnas.1307562110)
• Birch, H. et al. 2013. Planktonic foraminifera stable isotopes and water column structure: Disentangling ecological signals. Marine Micropaleontology 101 , pp.127-145. (10.1016/j.marmicro.2013.02.002)
• John, E. H. et al. 2013. Warm ocean processes and carbon cycling in the Eocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 371 (2001) 20130099. (10.1098/rsta.2013.0099)
• Pancost, R. D. et al., 2013. Early Paleogene evolution of terrestrial climate in the SW Pacific, Southern New Zealand. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 14 (12), pp.5413-5429. (10.1002/2013GC004935)

2012

• Birch, H. S. , Coxall, H. K. and Pearson, P. N. 2012. Evolutionary ecology of Early Paleocene planktonic foraminifera: Size, depth habitat and symbiosis. Paleobiology 38 (3), pp.374-390. (10.1666/11027.1)
• Cotton, L. J. and Pearson, P. N. 2012. Larger benthic foraminifera from the Middle Eocene to Oligocene of Tanzania. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 105 (1), pp.189-199.
• Etienne, R. S. et al., 2012. Diversity-dependence brings molecular phylogenies closer to agreement with the fossil record. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B: Biological Sciences 279 (1732), pp.1300-1309. (10.1098/rspb.2011.1439)
• Ezard, T. H. G. et al., 2012. The meaning of birth and death (in macroevolutionary birth-death models). Biology Letters 8 (1), pp.139-142. (10.1098/rsbl.2011.0699)
• Handley, L. et al., 2012. Changes in the hydrological cycle in tropical East Africa during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 329-30 , pp.10-21. (10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.02.002)
• Hollis, C. J. et al., 2012. Early Paleogene temperature history of the southwest Pacific Ocean: reconciling proxies and models. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 349-50 , pp.53-66. (10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.024)
• Knox, R. W. et al., 2012. Examining the case for the use of the Tertiary as a formal period or informal unit. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 123 (3), pp.390-393. (10.1016/j.pgeola.2012.05.004)
• Lloyd, G. T. et al., 2012. Sampling bias and the fossil record of planktonic foraminifera on land and in the deep sea. Paleobiology 38 (4), pp.569-584. (10.1666/11041.1)
• Pearson, P. N. 2012. Oxygen isotopes in foraminifera: Overview and historical review. Paleontological Society Papers 18 , pp.1-38.

2011

• Aze, T. et al. 2011. A phylogeny of Cenozoic macroperforate planktonic foraminifera from fossil data. Biological Reviews 86 (4), pp.900-927. (10.1111/j.1469-185X.2011.00178.x)
• Cotton, L. J. and Pearson, P. N. 2011. Extinction of larger benthic foraminifera at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 311 (3-4), pp.281-296. (10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.09.008)
• Ezard, T. H. G. et al., 2011. Interplay between changing climate and species' ecology drives macroevolutionary dynamics. Science 332 (6027), pp.349-351. (10.1126/science.1203060)
• Wade, B. S. et al. 2011. Review and revision of Cenozoic tropical planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and calibration to the geomagnetic polarity and astronomical time scale. Earth-Science Reviews 104 (1-3), pp.111-142. (10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.09.003)
• Zalasiewicz, J. et al., 2011. Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369 (1938), pp.1036-1055. (10.1098/rsta.2010.0315)

2010

• Ezard, T. H. G. , Pearson, P. N. and Purvis, A. 2010. Algorithmic approaches to aid species' delimitation in multidimensional morphospace. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10 (1) 175. (10.1186/1471-2148-10-175)
• Pearson, P. N. 2010. Increased Atmospheric CO2 During the Middle Eocene. Science 330 (6005), pp.763-764. (10.1126/science.1197894)

2009

• Brown, P. and Pearson, P. N. 2009. Calcareous plankton evolution and the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum event: new evidence from Tanzania. Marine Micropaleontology 71 (1-2), pp.60-70. (10.1016/j.marmicro.2009.01.005)
• Jones, T. D. , Bown, P. R. and Pearson, P. N. 2009. Exceptionally well preserved upper Eocene to lower Oligocene calcareous nannofossils (Prymnesiophyceae) from the Pande Formation (Kilwa Group), Tanzania. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 7 (4), pp.359-411. (10.1017/S1477201909990010)
• Pearson, P. N. , Foster, G. L. and Wade, B. S. 2009. Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition. Nature 461 (7267), pp.1110-1113. (10.1038/nature08447)
• Pearson, P. N. and Wade, B. S. 2009. Taxonomy and stable isotope paleoecology of well-preserved planktonic foraminifera from the uppermost oligocene of Trinidad. The Journal of Foraminiferal Research 39 (3), pp.191-217. (10.2113/gsjfr.39.3.191)
• Purvis, A. et al., 2009. Temporal patterns in diversification rates. In: Butlin, R. , Bridle, J. and Schluter, D. eds. Speciation and Patterns of Diversity. Ecological Reviews Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , pp.278-300.
• Spezzaferri, S. and Pearson, P. N. 2009. Distribution and ecology of catapsydrax indianus, a new planktonic foraminifer index species for the late oligocene-early miocene. The Journal of Foraminiferal Research 39 (2), pp.112-119. (10.2113/gsjfr.39.2.112)

2008

• Bown, P. et al., 2008. A Paleogene calcareous microfossil Konservat-Lagerstätte from the Kilwa Group of coastal Tanzania. Geological Society of America Bulletin 120 (1-2), pp.3-12. (10.1130/B26261.1)
• Burgess, C. E. et al. 2008. Middle Eocene climate cyclicity in the southern Pacific: implications for global ice volume. Geology 36 (8), pp.651-654. (10.1130/G24762A.1)
• Dunkley Jones, T. et al., 2008. Major shifts in calcareous phytoplankton assemblages through the Eocene-Oligocene transition of Tanzania and their implications for low-latitude primary production. Paleoceanography 23 (4) PA4204. (10.1029/2008PA001640)
• Handley, L. et al., 2008. Large terrestrial and marine carbon and hydrogen isotope excursions in a new Paleocene/Eocene boundary section from Tanzania. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 275 (1-2), pp.17-25. (10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.030)
• Kasemann, S. A. et al., 2008. Biological and ecological insights into Ca isotopes in planktic foraminifers as a palaeotemperature proxy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 271 (1-4), pp.292-302. (10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.007)
• Lear, C. H. et al. 2008. Cooling and ice growth across the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Geology 36 (3), pp.251-254. (10.1130/G24584A.1)
• Pearson, P. N. and Burgess, C. E. 2008. Foraminifer test preservation and diagenesis: comparison of high latitude Eocene sites. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 303 (1), pp.59-72. (10.1144/SP303.5)
• Pearson, P. N. et al. 2008. Extinction and environmental change across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in Tanzania. Geology 36 (2), pp.179-182. (10.1130/G24308A.1)
• Wade, B. S. and Pearson, P. N. 2008. Planktonic foraminiferal turnover, diversity fluctuations and geochemical signals across the Eocene/Oligocene boundary in Tanzania. Marine Micropaleontology 68 (3-4), pp.244-255. (10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.04.002)
• Zalasiewicz, J. et al., 2008. Are we now living in the Anthropocene?. GSA Today 18 (2), pp.4-8. (10.1130/GSAT01802A.1)

2007

• Coxall, H. K. et al. 2007. Iterative evolution of digitate planktonic foraminifera. Paleobiology 33 (4), pp.495-516. (10.1666/06034.1)
• Pearson, P. N. et al. 2007. Stable warm tropical climate through the Eocene epoch. Geology 35 (3), pp.211-214. (10.1130/G23175A.1)
• Coxall, H. K. and Pearson, P. N. 2007. The Eocene-Oligocene transition. In: Williams, M. et al., Deep-Time Perspectives on Climate Change: Marrying the Signal from Computer Models and Biological Proxies. Micropaleontology Society Special Publication London: Geological Society. , pp.351-387.
• Ni, Y. et al., 2007. A core top assessment of proxies for the ocean carbonate system in surface-dwelling foraminifers. Paleoceanography 22 (3) PA3212. (10.1029/2006PA001337)
• Nicholas, C. J. et al., 2007. Structural evolution of southern coastal Tanzania since the Jurassic. Journal of African Earth Sciences 48 (4), pp.273-297. (10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2007.04.003)
• Pearson, P. N. and Nicholas, C. J. 2007. 'Marks of extreme violence': Charles Darwin's geological observations at St Jago (São Tiago), Cape Verde islands. In: Wyse Jackson, P. N. ed. Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel. Geological Society Special Publication Vol. 287.London: Geological Society. , pp.239-253. (10.1144/SP287.19)

2006

• Sexton, P. F. , Wilson, P. A. and Pearson, P. N. 2006. Microstructural and geochemical perspectives on planktic foraminiferal preservation: “Glassy” versus “Frosty”. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7 (12) Q12P19. (10.1029/2006GC001291)
• Pearson, P. N. et al. 2006. Atlas of eocene planktonic foraminifera. Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Special Publication Vol. 41Fredericksburg, USA: Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research.
• Sexton, P. F. , Wilson, P. A. and Pearson, P. N. 2006. Palaeoecology of late middle Eocene planktic foraminifera and evolutionary implications. Marine Micropaleontology 60 (1), pp.1-16. (10.1016/j.marmicro.2006.02.006)
• Flower, B. P. , Zachos, J. C. and Pearson, P. N. 2006. Astronomic and oceanographic influences on global carbon cycling across the Oligocene/Miocene boundary. In: Sinha, D. K. ed. Micropaleontology: Application in Stratigraphy and Paleoceanography. New Delhi: Narosa Publishing House
• Nicholas, C. J. et al., 2006. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Upper Cretaceous to Paleogene Kilwa Group, southern coastal Tanzania. Journal of African Earth Sciences 45 (4-5), pp.431-466. (10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2006.04.003)
• Pearson, P. N. et al. 2006. Further Paleogene and Cretaceous sediment cores from the Kilwa area of coastal Tanzania: Tanzania Drilling Project Sites 6-10. Journal of African Earth Sciences 45 (3), pp.279-317. (10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2006.02.005)
• Pearson, P. N. et al. 2006. Overview of eocene planktonic for aminiferal taxonomy, paleoecology, phylogeny, and biostratigraphy. In: Pearson, P. N. et al., Atlas of Eocene Planktonic Foraminifera. Cushman Foundation. , pp.11-28.
• van Dongen, B. E. et al., 2006. Well preserved Palaeogene and Cretaceous biomarkers from the Kilwa area, Tanzania. Organic Geochemistry 37 (5), pp.539-557. (10.1016/j.orggeochem.2006.01.003)

2005

• Berggren, W. A. and Pearson, P. N. 2005. A revised tropical to subtropical Paleogene planktonic foraminiferal zonation. The Journal of Foraminiferal Research 35 (4), pp.279-298. (10.2113/35.4.279)
• Heuser, A. et al., 2005. Calcium isotope (δ44/40Ca) variations of Neogene planktonic foraminifera. Paleoceanography 20 (2) PA2013. (10.1029/2004PA001048)
• Kasemann, S. A. et al., 2005. Boron and calcium isotope composition in Neoproterozoic carbonate rocks from Namibia: evidence for extreme environmental change. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 231 (1-2), pp.73-86. (10.1016/j.epsl.2004.12.006)

2004

• Pearson, P. N. et al. 2004. Paleogene and Cretaceous sediment cores from the Kilwa and Lindi areas of coastal Tanzania: Tanzania Drilling Project Sites 1-5. Journal of African Earth Sciences 39 (1-2), pp.25-62. (10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2004.05.001)
• Stewart, D. R. M. et al., 2004. Miocene tropical Indian Ocean temperatures: evidence from three exceptionally preserved foraminiferal assemblages from Tanzania. Journal of African Earth Sciences 40 (3-4), pp.173-189. (10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2004.09.001)

2003

• Coxall, H. K. , Huber, B. T. and Pearson, P. N. 2003. Origin and morphology of the Eocene planktonic foraminifera Hantkenina. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 33 (3), pp.237-261. (10.2113/33.3.237)
• Palmer, M. R. and Pearson, P. N. 2003. A 23,000-year record of surface water pH and pCO2 in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean. Science 300 (5618), pp.480-482. (10.1126/science.1080796)
• Pearson, P. N. 2003. In retrospect [Commentary]. Nature 425 (6959), pp.665. (10.1038/425665a)

2002

• Pearson, P. N. , Ditchfield, P. and Shackleton, N. J. 2002. Palaeoclimatology (Communication arising): tropical temperatures in greenhouse episodes. Nature 419 (6910), pp.898. (10.1038/419898a)

2001

• Pearson, P. N. et al. 2001. Warm tropical sea surface temperatures in the Late Cretaceous and Eocene epochs. Nature 413 (6855), pp.481-487. (10.1038/35097000)
• Benton, M. J. and Pearson, P. N. 2001. Speciation in the fossil record. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16 (7), pp.405-411. (10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02149-8)
• Harcourt-Brown, K. G. , Pearson, P. N. and Wilkinson, M. 2001. The imbalance of paleontological trees. Paleobiology 27 (2), pp.188-204. (10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0188:TIOPT>2.0.CO;2)
• Winter, C. J. and Pearson, P. N. 2001. Coiling directions in some Miocene planktonic Foraminifera. Journal of Micropalaeontology 20 , pp.29-30. (10.1144/jm.20.1.29)

2000

• Coxall, H. K. et al. 2000. Hantkeninid depth adaptation: an evolving life strategy in a changing ocean. Geology 28 (1), pp.87-90. (10.1130/0091-7613(2000)28<87:HDAAEL>2.0.CO;2)
• Pearson, P. N. and Palmer, M. R. 2000. Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 60 million years. Nature 406 (6797), pp.695-699. (10.1038/35021000)
• Pearson, P. N. and Palmer, M. R. 2000. Estimating Paleogene atmospheric pCO(2) using boron isotope analysis of foraminifera. Geologiska Foereningen i Stockholm Foerhandlingar 122 (1), pp.127-128. (10.1080/11035890001221127)

1999

• Pearson, P. N. 1999. Apomorphy distribution is an important aspect of cladogram symmetry. Systematic Biology 48 (2), pp.399-406. (10.1080/106351599260373)
• Pearson, P. N. and Palmer, M. R. 1999. Middle eocene seawater pH and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Science 284 (5421), pp.1824-1826. (10.1126/science.284.5421.1824)

1998

• Palmer, M. R. , Pearson, P. N. and Cobb, S. J. 1998. Reconstructing past ocean pH-depth profiles. Science 282 (5393), pp.1468-1471. (10.1126/science.282.5393.1468)
• Pearson, P. N. 1998. Speciation and extinction asymmetries in paleontological phylogenies: evidence for evolutionary progress?. Paleobiology -Chicago- 24 (3), pp.305-335.

1997

• Pearson, P. N. , Shackleton, N. J. and Hall, M. 1997. Stable isotopic evidence for the sympatric divergence of Globigerinoides trilobus and Orbulina universa (planktonic foraminifera). Journal of the Geological Society 154 (2), pp.295-302. (10.1144/gsjgs.154.2.0295)

1996

• Pearson, P. N. 1996. Cladogenetic, extinction and survivorship patterns from a lineage phylogeny: The Paleogene planktonic foraminifera. Micropaleontology 42 (2), pp.179-188. (10.2307/1485869)

1993

• Arnaud-Vanneau, A. et al., 1993. Carbonate build-up of atolls and guyots in the Northwestern Pacific: Preliminary results from ODP Leg 144. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series II 317 (7), pp.947-954.
• Pearson, P. N. 1993. A lineage phylogeny for the Paleogene planktonic foraminifera. Micropaleontology 39 (3), pp.193-232.
• Pearson, P. N. , Shackleton, N. J. and Hall, M. A. 1993. Stable isotope paleoecology of middle Eocene planktonic foraminifera and multi-species isotope stratigraphy, DSDP Site 523, South Atlantic. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 23 (2), pp.123-140. (10.2113/gsjfr.23.2.123)

1992

• Pearson, P. N. 1992. Survivorship analysis of fossil taxa when real-time extinction rates vary: the Paleogene planktonic foraminifera. Paleobiology 18 (2), pp.115-131.
• Pearson, P. N. 1992. Walking traces of the giant myriapod Arthropleura from the Strathclyde Group (Lower Carboniferous) of Fife. Scottish Journal of Geology 28 (2), pp.127-133. (10.1144/sjg28020127)
• Pearson, P. N. and Nicholas, C. J. 1992. Defining the base of the Cambrian: the Hicks-Geikie confrontation of April 1883. Earth Sciences History 11 (2), pp.70-80.