TY  - GEN
A1  - Foster, William J.
A1  - Garvie, Christopher L.
A1  - Weiss, Anna M.
A1  - Muscente, A. Drew
A1  - Aberhan, Martin
A1  - Counts, John W.
A1  - Martindale, Rowan C.
T1  - Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - The hyperthermal events of the Cenozoic, including the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, provide an opportunity to investigate the potential effects of climate warming on marine ecosystems. Here, we examine the shallow benthic marine communities preserved in the late Cretaceous to Eocene strata on the Gulf Coastal Plain (United States). In stark contrast to the ecological shifts following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, our data show that the early Cenozoic hyperthermals did not have a long-term impact on the generic diversity nor composition of the Gulf Coastal Plain molluscan communities. We propose that these communities were resilient to climate change because molluscs are better adapted to high temperatures than other taxa, as demonstrated by their physiology and evolutionary history. In terms of resilience, these communities differ from other shallow-water carbonate ecosystems, such as reef communities, which record significant changes during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals. These data highlight the strikingly different responses of community types, i.e., the almost imperceptible response of molluscs versus the marked turnover of foraminifera and reef faunas. The impact on molluscan communities may have been low because detrimental conditions did not devastate the entire Gulf Coastal Plain, allowing molluscs to rapidly recolonise vacated areas once harsh environmental conditions ameliorated.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 1410 
KW  - eocene thermal maximum
KW  - gulf coastal plain
KW  - climate-change
KW  - ocean acidification
KW  - extinction event
KW  - carbon-cycle
KW  - heat-stress
KW  - origination
KW  - ecosystems
KW  - diversity
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-516011
SN  - 1866-8372
IS  - 1
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Foster, William J.
A1  - Garvie, Christopher L.
A1  - Weiss, Anna M.
A1  - Muscente, A. Drew
A1  - Aberhan, Martin
A1  - Counts, John W.
A1  - Martindale, Rowan C.
T1  - Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals
JF  - Scientific Reports
N2  - The hyperthermal events of the Cenozoic, including the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, provide an opportunity to investigate the potential effects of climate warming on marine ecosystems. Here, we examine the shallow benthic marine communities preserved in the late Cretaceous to Eocene strata on the Gulf Coastal Plain (United States). In stark contrast to the ecological shifts following the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, our data show that the early Cenozoic hyperthermals did not have a long-term impact on the generic diversity nor composition of the Gulf Coastal Plain molluscan communities. We propose that these communities were resilient to climate change because molluscs are better adapted to high temperatures than other taxa, as demonstrated by their physiology and evolutionary history. In terms of resilience, these communities differ from other shallow-water carbonate ecosystems, such as reef communities, which record significant changes during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals. These data highlight the strikingly different responses of community types, i.e., the almost imperceptible response of molluscs versus the marked turnover of foraminifera and reef faunas. The impact on molluscan communities may have been low because detrimental conditions did not devastate the entire Gulf Coastal Plain, allowing molluscs to rapidly recolonise vacated areas once harsh environmental conditions ameliorated.
KW  - eocene thermal maximum
KW  - gulf coastal plain
KW  - climate-change
KW  - ocean acidification
KW  - extinction event
KW  - carbon-cycle
KW  - heat-stress
KW  - origination
KW  - ecosystems
KW  - diversity
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58986-5
SN  - 2045-2322
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
PB  - Springer Nature
CY  - London
ER  -