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A two-step expansion of the dinocyst Lingulodinium machaerophorum in the Caspian Sea: the role of changing environment
- Source :
- Quaternary Science Reviews, Quaternary Science Reviews, Elsevier, 2013, 77:, pp.31-45 (IF 4,076), Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013, 77, pp.31-45. ⟨10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.026⟩, Quaternary Science Reviews, Elsevier, 2013, 77, pp.31-45. ⟨10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.026⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- International audience; Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages were analysed in four short sediment cores collected in the south Basin of the Caspian Sea for assessing environmental changes over the last few millennia. Two of these cores were dated by radionuclides. The sedimentation rate of one of them was very high, in the order of 20 mm per year. The interpretation of the four sequences is supported by a collection of 27 lagoonal or marine surface sediment samples. A sharp increase in the concentration of the dinocyst occurs after 1967, especially owing to Lingulodinium machaerophorum. Considering nine other cores covering parts or the whole of Holocene, it became clear that this species started to develop in the Caspian Sea only during the last three millennia. By analysing instrumental data and collating existing reconstructions of sea level changes over the last decades, we show that the main forcing for the recent increase of L. machaerophorum percentages and concentration is global climate change, especially sea surface temperature increase. Sea level fluctuations likely only have a minor impact. We argue that the recent increase in L. machaerophorum indicates that the Caspian Sea clearly is in the Anthropocene.
- Subjects :
- 010506 paleontology
Archeology
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences
Structural basin
01 natural sciences
Dinocysts
Past sea surface temperature
Dinocyst
Last millennia
14. Life underwater
[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment
Sea level
Holocene
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere
Global and Planetary Change
Global warming
Sediment
Geology
Sedimentation
Last centuries
Sea surface temperature
Oceanography
13. Climate action
Caspian Sea
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Details
- ISSN :
- 02773791
- Volume :
- 77
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Quaternary Science Reviews
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....64a2335c64bca25a1da11652337107b1
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.026