Paleozoic To Modern Marine Ecological Shift Displayed In The Northern Adriatic Sea
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Steven J. Hageman Ph.D., Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Abstract: One of the major changes in the history of life was the decline from abundant sedentary, suspension-feeding animals living on the seafloor during the Paleozoic to their relative scarcity afterward, while animal life within the sediment burgeoned after the end-Paleozoic extinction. In the northern Adriatic Sea there is a quantitative change from abundant exposed sedentary suspension feeders in eastern oligotrophic water to their virtual absence under western higher-nutrient waters, where prolific animal life occurs within sediments. This geographic gradient supports the hypothesis that an increase in neritic nutrients drove—and continues to drive—the Paleozoic to post-Paleozoic marine ecological transition.
Paleozoic To Modern Marine Ecological Shift Displayed In The Northern Adriatic Sea
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- Publication
- McKinney, F. & Hageman, S. (2006). Paleozoic to modern marine ecological shift displayed in the northern Adriatic Sea. Geology, 34 (10): 881–884. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1130/G22707.1. Publisher version of record available at: https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/34/10/881/129398/Paleozoic-tomodern-marine-ecological-shift?searchresult=1
- Language: English
- Date: 2006
- Keywords
- Phanerozoic, paleoecology, epibenthos, endobenthos, nutrients