REGIONAL RESPONSE OF MARINE BIODIVERSITY TO CLIMATE-DRIVEN SEA-LEVEL CHANGES: AN EXAMPLE FROM THE ADRIATIC SEA

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Kowalewski ◽  
◽  
Kristopher M. Kusnerik ◽  
Daniele Scarponi ◽  
Fabio Trincardi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Sea Level Changes

Correlating Alpine glaciation with Adriatic sea-level changes through lake and alluvial stratigraphy

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 791-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Monegato ◽  
Roberta Pini ◽  
Cesare Ravazzi ◽  
Paula J. Reimer ◽  
Lucia Wick
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Sea Level Changes

scholarly journals Patterns of species range evolution in Indo-Pacific reef assemblages reveal the Coral Triangle as a net source of transoceanic diversity

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 20160090 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean M. Evans ◽  
Caroline McKenna ◽  
Stephen D. Simpson ◽  
Jennifer Tournois ◽  
Martin J. Genner
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Coral Triangle ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Centre Of Origin

The Coral Triangle in the Indo-Pacific is a region renowned for exceptional marine biodiversity. The area could have acted as a ‘centre of origin’ where speciation has been prolific or a ‘centre of survival’ by providing refuge during major environmental shifts such as sea-level changes. The region could also have acted as a ‘centre of accumulation’ for species with origins outside of the Coral Triangle, owing to it being at a central position between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Here, we investigated support for these hypotheses using population-level DNA sequence-based reconstructions of the range evolution of 45 species (314 populations) of Indo-Pacific reef-associated organisms. Our results show that populations undergoing the most ancient establishment were significantly more likely to be closer to the centre of the Coral Triangle than to peripheral locations. The data are consistent with the Coral Triangle being a net source of coral-reef biodiversity for the Indo-Pacific region, suggesting that the region has acted primarily as a centre of survival, a centre of origin or both. These results provide evidence of how a key location can influence the large-scale distributions of biodiversity over evolutionary timescales.

Post-Roman sea-level changes on Pag Island (Adriatic Sea): Dating Croatia's “enigmatic” coastal notch?

Geomorphology ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 83-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Marriner ◽  
Christophe Morhange ◽  
Sanja Faivre ◽  
Clément Flaux ◽  
Matteo Vacchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Sea Level Changes

Tectonic effects on Late Holocene sea level changes in the Gulf of Trieste (NE Adriatic Sea, Italy)

2011 ◽  
Vol 232 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 144-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Furlani ◽  
Sara Biolchi ◽  
Franco Cucchi ◽  
Fabrizio Antonioli ◽  
Martina Busetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Gulf Of Trieste ◽  
Holocene Sea Level

scholarly journals The late Silurian–Middle Devonian long-term eustatic cycle as a possible control on the global generic diversity dynamics of bivalves and gastropods

Geologos ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-200
Author(s):  
Dmitry A. Ruban
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Middle Devonian ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Sea Level Changes ◽  
Regional Tectonic ◽  
Stratigraphic Ranges ◽  
Global Sea Level ◽  
Diversity Dynamics

Abstract A long-term eustatic cycle (fall and subsequent rise of the global sea level) embraced the late Silurian-Middle Devonian time interval. Potentially, these sea-level changes could drive global biodiversity. The stratigraphic ranges of 204 bivalve genera and 279 gastropod genera included into the famous Sepkoski database allow reconstructing changes in the total diversity and the number of originations and extinctions of these important groups of marine benthic macro- -invertebrates during this interval. None of the recorded parameters coincided with the long-term global sea-level cycle. It cannot be not excluded, however, that the global sea-level changes did not affect the regions favourable for bivalve and gastropod radiation because of regional tectonic mechanisms; neither can it be excluded that the eustatic control persisted together with many other extrinsic and intrinsic controls. Interestingly, the generic diversity of gastropods increased together with a cooling trend, and vice versa. Additionally, the Ludlow, Eifelian, and Givetian biotic crises affected, probably, both fossil groups under study. There was also a coincidence of the relatively high bivalve generic diversity, initial radiation of gastropods and the entire biota, and the diversification of brachiopods with the Early Devonian global sea-level lowstand, and this may be interpreted as evidence of a certain eustatic control on the marine biodiversity.

Paleozoic Sea-Level Changes in the Appalachian Basin: Washington, D.C., July 20–24, 1989

10.1029/ft354 ◽  
1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Dennison ◽  
Edwin J. Anderson ◽  
Jack D. Beuthin ◽  
Edward Cotter ◽  
Richard J. Diecchio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Appalachian Basin ◽  
Sea Level Changes
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