Late Miocene transformation of Mediterranean Sea biodiversity
- Author(s)
- Konstantina Agiadi, Niklas Hohmann, Elsa Gliozzi, Danae Thivaiou, Francesca R. Bosellini, Marco Taviani, Giovanni Bianucci, Alberto Collareta, Laurent Londeix, Costanza Faranda, Francesca Bulian, Efterpi Koskeridou, Francesca Lozar, Alan Maria Mancini, Stefano Dominici, Pierre Moissette, Ildefonso Bajo Campos, Enrico Borghi, George Iliopoulos, Assimina Antonarakou, George Kontakiotis, Evangelia Besiou, Stergios D. Zarkogiannis, Mathias Harzhauser, Francisco Javier Sierro, Marta Coll, Iuliana Vasiliev, Angelo Camerlenghi, Daniel García-Castellanos
- Abstract
Understanding deep-time marine biodiversity change under the combined effects of climate and connectivity changes is fundamental for predicting the impacts of modern climate change in semi-enclosed seas. We quantify the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene [11.63 to 3.6 million years (Ma)] taxonomic diversity of the Mediterranean Sea for calcareous nannoplankton, dinocysts, foraminifera, ostracods, corals, molluscs, bryozoans, echinoids, fishes, and marine mammals. During this time, marine biota was affected by global climate cooling and the restriction of the Mediterranean's connection to the Atlantic Ocean that peaked with the Messinian salinity crisis. Although the net change in species richness from the Tortonian to the Zanclean varies by group, species turnover is greater than 30% in all cases, reflecting a high degree of reorganization of the marine ecosystem after the crisis. The results show a clear perturbation already in the pre-evaporitic Messinian (7.25 to 5.97 Ma), with patterns differing among groups and subbasins.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geology, Department of Palaeontology
- External organisation(s)
- Utrecht University, University of Warsaw, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso", CNR, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, University of Pisa, Université Bordeaux, Universidad de Salamanca, University of Groningen, University of Turin, University of Florence, Museo de Alcalá de Guadaíra, Società Reggiana di Scienze Naturali, University of Patras, University of Oxford, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (NHM), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Institut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera
- Journal
- Science Advances
- Volume
- 10
- Pages
- eadp1134
- ISSN
- 2375-2548
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp1134
- Publication date
- 09-2024
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105118 Palaeontology, 106003 Biodiversity research
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 14 - Life Below Water, SDG 13 - Climate Action
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/e0006991-9fa3-4c5a-9c83-39df4acc1804