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Time machine biology: cross-timescale integration of ecology, evolution, and oceanography
- Abstract:
- Direct observations of marine ecosystems are inherently limited in their temporal scope. Yet, ongoing global anthropogenic change urgently requires improved understanding of long-term baselines, greater insight into the relationship between climate and biodiversity, and knowledge of the evolutionary consequences of our actions. Sediment cores can provide this understanding by linking data on the responses of marine biota to reconstructions of past environmental and climatic change. Given continuous sedimentation and robust age control, studies of sediment cores have the potential to constrain the state and dynamics of past climates and ecosystems on timescales of centuries to millions of years. Here, we review the development and recent advances in “ocean drilling paleobiology”—a synthetic science with potential to illumi-nate the interplay and relative importance of ecological and evolutionary factors during times of global change. Climate, specifically temperature, appears to control Cenozoic marine ecosystems on million-year, millennial, centennial, and anthropogenic time-scales. Although certainly not the only factor controlling biodiversity dynamics, the effect size of temperature is large for both pelagic and deep-sea ecosystems.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.5670/oceanog.2020.225
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- Oceanography Society
- Journal:
- Oceanography More from this journal
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 16-28
- Publication date:
- 2020-09-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-09-19
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1042-8275
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English
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1140351
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