Late Miocene transformation of Mediterranean Sea biodiversity

Autor(en)
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
Abstrakt

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(en)
Institut für Geologie, Institut für Paläontologie
Externe Organisation(en)
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, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Universität Bordeaux, Universidad de Salamanca, University of Groningen, Università degli Studi di Torino, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 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 Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Institut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera
Journal
Science Advances
Band
10
Seiten
eadp1134
ISSN
2375-2548
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp1134
Publikationsdatum
09-2024
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
105118 Paläontologie, 106003 Biodiversitätsforschung
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
General
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 14 – Leben unter Wasser, SDG 13 – Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/e0006991-9fa3-4c5a-9c83-39df4acc1804