The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis

Massive salt accumulations, or salt giants, have formed in highly restricted marine basins throughout geological history, but their impact on biodiversity has been only patchily studied. The salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea formed as a result of the restriction of its gateway to the Atlantic duri...

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Autores: Agiadi, Konstantina, Hohmann, Niklas, García-Castellanos, Daniel, Gliozzi, Elsa, Thivaiou, Danae, Bosellini, Francesca R., Taviani, Marco, Bianucci, Giovanni, Collareta, Alberto, Londeix, Laurent, Faranda, Costanza, Bulian, Francesca, Koskeridou,Efterpi, Lozar, Francesca, Mancini, Alan Maria, Dominici, Stefano, Moissette, Pierre, Bajo Campos, Ildefonso, Borghi, Enrico, Iliopoulos, George, Antonarakou, Assimina, Kontakiotis, George, Besiou, Evangelia, Zarkogiannis, Stergios D., Harzhauser, Mathias, Sierro, Francisco Javier, Coll, Marta, Camerlenghi, Angelo, Vasiliev, Iuliana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/367816
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/367816
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:The salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea
Messinian Salinity Crisis
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Sumario:Massive salt accumulations, or salt giants, have formed in highly restricted marine basins throughout geological history, but their impact on biodiversity has been only patchily studied. The salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea formed as a result of the restriction of its gateway to the Atlantic during the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) 5.97 to 5.33 million years ago. Here, we quantify the biodiversity changes associated with the MSC based on a compilation of the Mediterranean fossil record. We conclude that 86 endemic species of the 2006 pre-MSC marine species survived the crisis, and that the present eastward-decreasing richness gradient in the Mediterranean was established after the MSC.

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