DOI: 10.5194/cp-11-1249-2015
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84942921546
论文题名: Microfossil evidence for trophic changes during the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the South Atlantic (ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge)
作者: Bordiga M. ; Henderiks J. ; Tori F. ; Monechi S. ; Fenero R. ; Legarda-Lisarri A. ; Thomas E.
刊名: Climate of the Past
ISSN: 18149324
出版年: 2015
卷: 11, 期: 9 起始页码: 1249
结束页码: 1270
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Epistominella
; Foraminifera
; Haptophyceae
; Reticulofenestra
英文摘要: The biotic response of calcareous nannoplankton to environmental and climatic changes during the Eocene-Oligocene transition was investigated at a high resolution at Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1263 (Walvis Ridge, southeast Atlantic Ocean) and compared with a lower-resolution benthic foraminiferal record. During this time interval, global climate, which had been warm under high levels of atmospheric CO2 (pCO2 ) during the Eocene, transitioned into the cooler climate of the Oligocene, at overall lower pCO2 . At Site 1263, the absolute nannofossil abundance (coccoliths per gram of sediment; N g-1) and the mean coccolith size decreased distinctly after the E-O boundary (EOB; 33.89 Ma), mainly due to a sharp decline in abundance of large-sized Reticulofenestra and Dictyococcites, occurring within a time span of ∼ 47 kyr. Carbonate dissolution did not vary much across the EOB; thus, the decrease in abundance and size of nannofossils may reflect an overall decrease in their export production, which could have led to variations in the food availability for benthic foraminifers. The benthic foraminiferal assemblage data are consistent with a global decline in abundance of rectilinear species with complex apertures in the latest Eocene (∼ 34.5 Ma), potentially reflecting changes in the food source, i.e., phytoplankton. This was followed by a transient increased abundance of species indicative of seasonal delivery of food to the sea floor (Epistominella spp.; ∼ 33.9-33.4 Ma), with a short peak in overall food delivery at the EOB (buliminid taxa; ∼ 33.8 Ma). Increased abundance of Nuttallides umbonifera (at ∼ 33.3 Ma) indicates the presence of more corrosive bottom waters and possibly the combined arrival of less food at the sea floor after the second step of cooling (Step 2). The most important changes in the calcareous nannofossil and benthic communities occurred ∼ 120 kyr after the EOB. There was no major change in nannofossil abundance or assemblage composition at Site 1263 after Step 2 although benthic foraminifera indicate more corrosive bottom waters during this time. During the onset of latest-Eocene-earliest-Oligocene climate change, marine phytoplankton thus showed high sensitivity to fast-changing conditions as well as to a possibly enhanced, pulsed nutrient supply and to the crossing of a climatic threshold (e.g., pCO2 decline, high-latitude cooling and changes in ocean circulation). © Author(s) 2015. 资助项目: Vetenskapsrådet
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/49114
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Bordiga M.,Henderiks J.,Tori F.,et al. Microfossil evidence for trophic changes during the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the South Atlantic (ODP Site 1263, Walvis Ridge)[J]. Climate of the Past,2015-01-01,11(9)