Biogeography of Indo-Pacific larger foraminifera and scleractinian corals: A probabilistic approach to estimating taxonomic diversity, faunal similarity, and sampling bias

Belasky, Paul

doi:10.1016/0031-0182(95)00092-5

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“…The species has the widest biogeographic range observed among the modern larger foraminifera covering a total north-south range from more than 50 degrees of latitude (from 34°N to 22°S) in the Atlantic Ocean to more than 70 degrees of latitude (from 38°N to 34°S) in the Indo-Pacific Ocean [3]. This is consistent with the maximum latitudinal range proposed for larger foraminifera [51]. According to our SDM, its potential distribution under current climate covered a latitudinal range over 70 degrees in both regions (Figures 4B and 5B).…”

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Heading for New Shores: Projecting Marine Distribution Ranges of Selected Larger Foraminifera

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The distribution of modern symbiont-bearing larger foraminifera is confined to tropical and subtropical shallow water marine habitats and a narrow range of environmental variables (e.g. temperature). Most of today's taxa are restricted to tropical and subtropical regions (between 30°N and 30°S) and their minimum temperature limits are governed by the 14 to 20°C isotherms. However, during times of extensive global warming (e.g., the Eocene and Miocene), larger foraminifera have been found as far north as 50°N (North America and Central Europe) as well as towards 47°S in New Zealand. During the last century, sea surface temperatures have been rising significantly. This trend is expected to continue and climate change scenarios for 2050 suggest a further increase by 1 to 3°C. We applied Species Distribution Models to assess potential distribution range changes of three taxa of larger foraminifera under current and future climate. The studied foraminifera include Archaias angulatus, Calcarina spp., and Amphistegina spp., and represent taxa with regional, superregional and global distribution patterns. Under present environmental conditions, Amphistegina spp. shows the largest potential distribution, apparently due to its temperature tolerance. Both Archaias angulatus and Calcarina spp. display potential distributions that cover currently uninhabited regions. Under climate conditions expected for the year 2050, all taxa should display latitudinal range expansions between 1 to 2.5 degrees both north- and southward. The modeled range projections suggest that some larger foraminifera may colonize biogeographic regions that so far seemed unsuitable. Archaias angulatus and Calcarina spp. also show an increase in habitat suitability within their native occurrence ranges, suggesting that their tolerance for maximum temperatures has yet not been fully exploited and that they benefit from ocean warming. Our findings suggest an increased role of larger foraminifera as carbonate producers and reef framework builders in future oceans.

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Heading for New Shores: Projecting Marine Distribution Ranges of Selected Larger Foraminifera

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“…Cimmerian and Cathaysian microcontinents) drifted across the Tethys, docking with Laurasia during the Triassic (Ricou, 1994;Besse et al, 1998;Stampfli and Borel, 2002). At the same time, terranes travelled across Panthalassa and accreted to the western margin of Pangea (see Nichols and Silberling, 1979;Tozer, 1982;Hawley et al, 1987;Belasky, 1996;Belasky and Runnegar, 1994;Belasky et al, 2002;Yancey et al, 2005;Johnston and Borel, 2007 for Chulitna, eastern Klamath, Stikinia, Wrangellia, and Cache Creek terranes of North America) or to the eastern margin of Pangea (see Kojima, 1989;Burij, 1997;Taira, 2001;Ishiwatari and Tsujimori, 2003;Ehiro et al, 2005 for the South Kitakami and the South Primorye terranes). Shi (2006), to which the reader is referred to for further details provides a recent summary of the present-day Asian geological and tectonic framework.…”

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“…In contrast, longitudinal displacements are more difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, some attempts of quantitative reconstruction based on corals have been rather successful (Belasky, 1996;Belasky and Runnegar, 1994;Belasky et al, 2002).…”

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Smithian and Spathian (Early Triassic) ammonoid assemblages from terranes: Paleoceanographic and paleogeographic implications

Brayard¹,

Escarguel²,

Bucher³

et al. 2009

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

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“…It was only in the late 1960s when it was recognized that significant carbonate production also takes place outside the tropics in settings where terrigenous influx is restricted (Chave 1967). Generally, the region of tropical carbonate sedimentation is separated from extra-tropical regions of carbonate formation by the 20°C winter isotherm (e.g., Betzler et al 1997); however, the distribution of modern coral reefs is constrained by winter minimum temperatures above 18°C (Newell 1971;Belasky 1996). In the 1980s, numerous studies have dealt with modern extra-tropical carbonates, in particular in the southern hemisphere (Nelson et al 1988;James and Bone 1989;James et al 1992;James 1997).…”

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Heterozoan carbonates in subtropical to tropical settings in the present and past

Westphal

Halfar

Freiwald

2010

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Water temperature has received considerable attention as steering factor for the genesis of different types of marine carbonate sediments. However, parameters other than temperature also strongly influence ecosystems and, consequently, the carbonate grain associations in the resulting carbonate rock. Among those factors are biological evolution, water energy, substrate, water chemistry, light penetration, trophic conditions, CO 2 concentrations, and Mg/Ca ratios in the seawater. Increased nutrient levels in warm-water settings, for example, lead to heterotrophicdominated associations that are characteristic of temperate to cool-water carbonates. Failure to recognize the influence of such environmental factors that shift the grain associations towards heterotrophic communities in low latitudes can lead to misinterpretation of climatic conditions in the past. Modern analogues of low-latitude heterozoan carbonates help to recognize and understand past occurrences of heterozoan warm-water carbonates. Careful analysis of such sediments therefore is required in order to achieve robust reconstructions of past climate.

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Biogeography of Indo-Pacific larger foraminifera and scleractinian corals: A probabilistic approach to estimating taxonomic diversity, faunal similarity, and sampling bias

Cited by 31 publications

References 64 publications

Heading for New Shores: Projecting Marine Distribution Ranges of Selected Larger Foraminifera

Heading for New Shores: Projecting Marine Distribution Ranges of Selected Larger Foraminifera

Smithian and Spathian (Early Triassic) ammonoid assemblages from terranes: Paleoceanographic and paleogeographic implications

Heterozoan carbonates in subtropical to tropical settings in the present and past

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