The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis
marine biodiversity
Aquatic Organisms
Salinity
SDG 14 – Leben unter Wasser
Mediterranean
Messinian Salinity Crisis
Extinction, Biological
01 natural sciences
[SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]
Mediterranean Sea
Animals
105112 Historical geology
Seawater
SDG 14 - Life Below Water
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Late Miocene
106003 Biodiversity research
Fossils
Extinction
Biodiversity
Biological
105112 Historische Geologie
Messinian Salinity Crisis, biodiversity, Mediterranean
The salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea
106003 Biodiversitätsforschung
105118 Paläontologie
Paleontology, biodiversity, Late Miocene, Mediterranean, Messinian Salinity crisis
105118 Palaeontology
salinity crisis
DOI:
10.1126/science.adp3703
Publication Date:
2024-08-29T17:59:22Z
AUTHORS (29)
ABSTRACT
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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