The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Agiadi, Konstantina; Hohmann, Niklas; 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; Campos, Ildefonso Bajo; Borghi, Enrico; Iliopoulos, George; Antonarakou, Assimina; Kontakiotis, George; Besiou, Evangelia; Zarkogiannis, Stergios D.; Harzhauser, Mathias; Sierro, Francisco Javier; Coll, Marta; Vasiliev, Iuliana; Camerlenghi, Angelo; Garcia-Castellanos, Daniel
• 署名单位: University of Vienna; Utrecht University; University of Warsaw; Roma Tre University; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens; Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR); Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR-CNR); Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn; University of Pisa; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); CNRS - National Institute for Earth Sciences & Astronomy (INSU); Universite de Bordeaux; University of Salamanca; University of Groningen; University of Turin; Marche Polytechnic University; University of Florence; University of Patras; University of Oxford; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Centro Mediterraneo de Investigaciones Marinas y Ambientales (CMIMA); CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM); Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale
• 刊物名称: SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0036-13226
• DOI: 10.1126/science.adp3703
• 发表日期: 2024-08-30
• 页码: 986-991
• 关键词: evolution

摘要

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.