Publikationsdatum:
2024-05-28
Beschreibung:
Although Pliocene temperature and pCO2 are
similar to those predicted in the IPPC RCP4.5 scenario, the
distribution of coral reefs in the center of maximum coral
diversity, the Coral Triangle, during this period has not been
explored. We discovered a significantly lower occurrence
of reefs during the Pliocene, which we refer to as the Pliocene
Reef Gap, but this decrease was not associated with a
drop in coral genus richness. While some of the multiple
local causes that drove this decline, such as sea level rise,
are analogs to drivers of Anthropocene reef decline, neither
warming nor increasing pCO2 are among them.
Schlagwort(e):
Pliocene · Neogene · Coral triangle ·
;
Paleontology · Anthropocene · Coral reef decline
Repository-Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Materialart:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format:
application/pdf
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