海洋学对浮游生物的多样性和灭绝进行控制
Shanan E Peters1, Daniel C Kelly, Andrew J Fraass
1Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. peters@geology.wisc.edu
Nature
|January 11, 2013
概括
地球 地球 地球 地球 地球 地球
科学领域:
- 地球科学 地球科学 地球科学
- 古生物学的古生物学
- 海洋学 海洋学 海洋学
背景情况:
- 长期的生物进化受到环境变化的影响,特别是大规模灭绝.
- 在进化过程中,物理因素和生物相互作用之间的相互作用仍然不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究构造学和气候变化与浮游生物类动物进化之间的联系.
- 为了确定在地质时间上的灭绝和起源率的驱动因素.
主要方法:
- 对大西洋盆地的宏观地图数据的分析.
- 考察从罗纪到现在的浮游生物 (planktonic foraminifera) 的物种多样性和灭绝率.
- 进化数据与构造学和气候变化的相关性.
主要成果:
- 全球物种多样性和浮游生物的灭绝率与构造学和气候驱动的海洋变化相关.
- 短暂的环境事件,如白纪-古纪灭绝和生态时代-原生态时代过渡,叠加在这种长期趋势上.
- 物种起源率与宏观地图学量没有相关性.
结论:
- 物理化学海洋大气变化主要驱动同步灭绝事件.
- 进化起源与复杂的,长期的生物和环境相互作用有关.
- 了解这些联系对于地球科学和预测未来的进化模式至关重要.
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