The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis

Konstantina Agiadi; Niklas Hohmann; Elsa Gliozzi; Danae Thivaiou; Francesca R Bosellini; Marco Taviani; Giovanni Bianucci; Alberto Collareta; Laurent Londeix; Costanza Faranda; Francesca Bulian; Efterpi Koskeridou; Francesca Lozar; Alan Maria Mancini; Stefano Dominici; Pierre Moissette; Ildefonso Bajo Campos; Enrico Borghi; George Iliopoulos; Assimina Antonarakou; George Kontakiotis; Evangelia Besiou; Stergios D Zarkogiannis; Mathias Harzhauser; Francisco Javier Sierro; Marta Coll; Iuliana Vasiliev; Angelo Camerlenghi; Daniel García-Castellanos

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The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis

Konstantina Agiadi^*, Niklas Hohmann, Elsa Gliozzi, Danae Thivaiou, Francesca R Bosellini, Marco Taviani, Giovanni Bianucci, Alberto Collareta, Laurent Londeix, Costanza Faranda, Francesca Bulian, Efterpi Koskeridou, Francesca Lozar, Alan Maria Mancini, Stefano Dominici, Pierre Moissette, Ildefonso Bajo Campos, Enrico Borghi, George Iliopoulos, Assimina AntonarakouGeorge Kontakiotis, Evangelia Besiou, Stergios D Zarkogiannis, Mathias Harzhauser, Francisco Javier Sierro, Marta Coll, Iuliana Vasiliev, Angelo Camerlenghi, Daniel García-Castellanos

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Abstract

Massive salt accumulations, or salt giants, have formed in highly restricted marine basins throughout geological history, but their impact on biodiversity has been only patchily studied. The salt giant in the Mediterranean Sea formed as a result of the restriction of its gateway to the Atlantic during the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) 5.97 to 5.33 million years ago. Here, we quantify the biodiversity changes associated with the MSC based on a compilation of the Mediterranean fossil record. We conclude that 86 endemic species of the 2006 pre-MSC marine species survived the crisis, and that the present eastward-decreasing richness gradient in the Mediterranean was established after the MSC.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	986-991
Number of pages	6
Journal	Science (New York, N.Y.)
Volume	385
Issue number	6712
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adp3703
Publication status	Published - 29 Aug 2024

Keywords

Animals
Aquatic Organisms
Biodiversity
Extinction, Biological
Fossils
Mediterranean Sea
Salinity
Seawater

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Agiadi, K., Hohmann, N., Gliozzi, E., Thivaiou, D., Bosellini, F. R., Taviani, M., Bianucci, G., Collareta, A., Londeix, L., Faranda, C., Bulian, F., Koskeridou, E., Lozar, F., Mancini, A. M., Dominici, S., Moissette, P., Campos, I. B., Borghi, E., Iliopoulos, G., ... García-Castellanos, D. (2024). The marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 385(6712), 986-991. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adp3703

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