History of the Mediterranean salinity crisis

Hsü, Kenneth J.; Montadert, L.; Bernoulli, Daniel; Cita, Maria Bianca; Erickson, A. J.; Garrison, Robert E.; Kidd, Robert B.; Melieres, F.; Müller, Carla; Wright, Ramil

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“…The paleogeographic changes that took place in the Mediterranean basin starting in the Miocene, (Hsü et al 1977;McKenzie 1999) had a profound impact on the distribution and genetic structure of the cyprinodontiform fish that populated the Mediterranean waters in this period, and whose European fossils date back to the OligoceneMiocene (Gaudant 1978(Gaudant , 1979. Studies by Villwock (1999) on cyprinodontid biogeography showed that, during the Middle Miocene marine transgression, the ancient ancestor of the A. fasciatus/A.…”

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Genetic divergence among and within four Italian populations ofAphanius fasciatus(Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes)

Rocco

Ferrito

Costagliola

et al. 2007

Italian Journal of Zoology

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Due to the natural fragmentation of its habitats, Aphanius fasciatus, a Cyprininodontid living in coastal brackish-water habitats, is distributed discontinuously with considerable isolation of its populations, and characterized by a high degree of osteological and genetic differentiation among them. The genetic relationships in four different Italian populations were studied using the control region (D-loop) mitochondrial DNA sequence and the polymorphisms generated by RAPD-PCR. The results revealed a well-defined genetic structuring, that was also confirmed by the high G st and F st values, and a close relationship between the populations of Ganzirri and Lesina, as well as the isolation of the other two Sicilian populations. Moreover, with respect to the mitochondrial DNA analyses, the total genetic variance was higher among populations, but lower in the case of the RAPD polymorphisms.

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Genetic divergence among and within four Italian populations ofAphanius fasciatus(Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes)

Rocco

Ferrito

Costagliola

et al. 2007

Italian Journal of Zoology

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“…The islands maintained land connections with the Iberian peninsula along this range until the Pliocene marine transgression 5.2 Mya ago (Hsü et al, 1977). At the beginning of the Pliocene (5.32-5 Mya), the climate was more humid than today, and a strong change in climatic conditions took place from 3.2 to 2.3 Mya, with the establishment of xeric conditions that promoted the expansion of sclerophyllous forests in Mediterranean Basin (Suc, 1984;Fauquette et al, 1999).…”

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Population clustering and clonal structure evidence the relict state of Ulmus minor Mill. in the Balearic Islands

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Field elm (Ulmus minor) is a riparian tree that grows in rare, small populations scattered along temporary watercourses in the Balearic Islands, nowadays mostly covered with Mediterranean vegetation. Agriculture and farming on the fertile land along the periodically flooded plains have reduced the elm populations to sparse tree lines along the creek beds. The presence of field elm in this very anthropic landscape has led some authors to consider it as an introduced species in the Balearics. However, pollen data suggest these elms may be the remains of larger populations experiencing continuous population shrinkage during the Holocene, and hence be native to the isles. In this paper, we apply genetic markers to assess whether field elm is or is not indigenous to the Balearic Islands. We compare the genetic variation in nine nuclear microsatellites of six Balearic populations (three in each of the largest islands, Majorca and Minorca) with that of three natural Iberian populations located in two regions, one geologically (Baetic mountains, SE Iberia) and another historically (Catalonia, NE Iberia) related to the islands. Principal coordinates analysis and Bayesian clustering methods reveal a strong genetic differentiation of the Balearic populations from the Iberian ones, and even among islands, which support their native origin. Genotypic variation in the islands is very low and clonal reproduction is very high compared with the mainland, as it is frequently observed in populations of clonal species where sexual reproduction is limited. We discuss the practical implications of these findings for the conservation of elm genetic resources of these findings.

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“…The Messinian was a time of drastic paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic changes in the Mediterranean (Hsü et al, 1973(Hsü et al, , 1977. During this time interval, tectonic processes together with glacioeustatic sea-level oscillations led to the isolation of the Mediterranean triggering the formation of thick evaporite deposits during the socalled Messinian salinity crisis (MSC) (Benson, 1986;Benson et al, 1991;Martín and Braga, 1994;Esteban et al, 1996;Riding et al, 1998;Martín et al, 2010).…”

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Messinian paleoenvironmental evolution in the lower Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain) based on benthic foraminifera

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Aguirre

Schmiedl

et al. 2012

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Benthic foraminiferal assemblages of a drill core from the lower Guadalquivir Basin (northern Gulf of Cádiz, SW Spain) have been analysed in order to reconstruct the paleoenvironmental evolution in the vicinity of the Betic seaways during the Messinian. The core consists of marine sediments ranging from the latest Tortonian to the early Pliocene. Changes in the abundance of certain marker species, planktonic/benthic ratio (P/B ratio), paleodepth estimated with a transfer function, content of sand grains and presence of glauconitic layers indicate a complete transgressive-regressive sea-level cycle from the bottom to the top of the section. An abrupt sea-level rise, from inner-middle shelf to middle slope, is recorded at the lowermost part of the core (latest Tortonian-earliest Messinian), followed by a relatively rapid shallowing from middle slope to outer shelf. Magnetobiostratigraphic data show These assemblages are dominated by Nonion fabum and Bulimina elongata, two taxa that are able to feed from continental low-quality organic matter, most likely derived from river run-off. The paleoenviromental evolution on the Atlantic side of Betic and Rifian seaways is similar during the Messinian, with a Messinian continuous sea-level lowering driven by regional tectonic uplift and upwelling-related waters reaching the upper slope. This study will further contribute to understand the role of tectonics on the sea-level changes as well as on the closure of the Atlantic-Mediterranean gateways that led to the MSC, and on the paleoceanography on the Atlantic sides of these corridors.

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History of the Mediterranean salinity crisis

Cited by 840 publications

References 9 publications

Genetic divergence among and within four Italian populations ofAphanius fasciatus(Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes)

Genetic divergence among and within four Italian populations ofAphanius fasciatus(Teleostei, Cyprinodontiformes)

Population clustering and clonal structure evidence the relict state of Ulmus minor Mill. in the Balearic Islands

Messinian paleoenvironmental evolution in the lower Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain) based on benthic foraminifera

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