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{"title":"Climate and lake ecosystem evolution over the last millennium on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau: Insights from stable isotope records of gastropod shells in Xing Co","authors":"Yunqing Li ,&nbsp;Wanyi Zhang ,&nbsp;Siyao Liu ,&nbsp;Yanrong Zhang ,&nbsp;Xianyong Cao ,&nbsp;Fang Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The evolution of alpine lake ecosystems on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau (NETP) over the last millennium has been affected by climate change and human activity. This study reconstructs the palaeoclimate and lake productivity of Xing Co using carbon and oxygen isotopes from aquatic gastropod shells (<em>δ</em>¹³C_shell and <em>δ</em>¹⁸O_shell), grain-size, total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), and the TOC/TN (C/N) ratio. The highest lake productivity – during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) – is likely linked to enhanced photosynthesis of aquatic plants and increased biomass within the lake. This increase was driven by warm, humid climate conditions, indicated by higher <em>δ</em>¹³C_shell values, lower <em>δ</em>¹⁸O_shell values, and increased coarse-grain content. In contrast, the significant decline in lake productivity during the Little Ice Age (LIA) resulted from deterioration of trophic status and restricted aquatic plant growth under colder, drier climate conditions. However, the decrease in lake productivity since 1950 CE, amid global warming, may be linked to increased soil erosion and sedimentation rate from intensified human activity and land-use changes. The combined effects of climatic shifts and human disturbances highlight the need for ongoing monitoring of lake ecosystems to understand their resilience and response to future environmental changes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19928,"journal":{"name":"Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology","volume":"667 ","pages":"Article 112896"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143643941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Precipitation reconstruction for the western Chinese Loess Plateau since 1598 CE reveals recent wetting signals","authors":"Yue Li ,&nbsp;Feng Chen ,&nbsp;Xiaoen Zhao ,&nbsp;Weipeng Yue ,&nbsp;Mao Hu ,&nbsp;Junqiang Niu ,&nbsp;Tiyuan Hou ,&nbsp;Yang Xu ,&nbsp;Hechuan Wang ,&nbsp;Shijie Wang ,&nbsp;Honghua Cao ,&nbsp;Youping Chen ,&nbsp;Heli Zhang ,&nbsp;Max C.A. Torbenson","doi":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112898","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112898","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global warming has emerged as a significant environmental challenge for humanity, particularly in climate-sensitive regions such as the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). Climate changes in this region are thought to have led to an increase in extreme weather events, adversely affecting ecosystems and agricultural development. This study uses spruce tree-ring samples to reconstruct precipitation data for the western CLP (WCLP) since 1598 CE. The resulting record accounts for 49 % of the variation in instrumental precipitation from July of the previous year to June of the current year. Through this reconstruction, we document occurrences of extreme drought and wet events over the past 426 years, record significant historical drought events in WCLP, reveal climatic driving mechanisms on different timescales, and analyze recent trends of increasing precipitation. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of the climatic history of the WCLP and provides scientific foundations for future climate predictions and regional sustainable development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19928,"journal":{"name":"Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology","volume":"668 ","pages":"Article 112898"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143685359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meridional shifts of Brazil-Malvinas Confluence since the Last Glacial Maximum","authors":"Fang Gu ,&nbsp;Karin A.F. Zonneveld ,&nbsp;Hermann Behling","doi":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112897","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112897","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Brazil-Malvinas Confluence (BMC) is a highly dynamic convergence of surface currents in the southwestern South Atlantic, where the warm Brazil Current (BC) from the tropical Atlantic meets the cold Malvinas Current (MC) that originates from the northern branch of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Meridional shifts of the BMC play an important role in controlling the heat transfer from the tropical Atlantic to the higher latitudes of the South Atlantic. In this study, the marine core GeoB13861–1 is analyzed for pollen, spores, freshwater algae, and organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts (dinocysts) to reconstruct marine and terrestrial paleoenvironmental changes in southeastern South America since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The results indicate that during LGM, the BMC was at its northernmost location due to the strong influence of the MC. During that period, exposed coastal areas of Argentina were dominated by salt marshes shaped by low global sea level. From ∼18 to 15 cal kyr BP, the BMC migrated southward, contributing to more humid conditions on the adjacent continent. As sea level rose, former salt marshes along the coast were gradually flooded. The increased presence of <em>Nothofagus</em> and <em>Podocarpus</em> pollen in the marine record suggests a slight expansion of Andean forests during the Late Glacial, indicating the adjacent continental regions shifted to wetter conditions. Notably, our study confirms that the signals of abrupt climate events, such as Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1) and Younger Dryas (YD), are well-preserved in the marine sediment records. Our new findings provide clear evidence of the bi-polar sea saw effect during HS1, marked by abrupt ocean warming in the South Atlantic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19928,"journal":{"name":"Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology","volume":"667 ","pages":"Article 112897"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143643945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The long-term dynamics of biodiversity and stability of the diatom community under climate warming in a Tibetan alpine lake","authors":"Yanjie Zhao ,&nbsp;Rong Wang ,&nbsp;Hengshuai Qiu ,&nbsp;Wenxiu Zheng ,&nbsp;Enlou Zhang ,&nbsp;Xiangdong Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112882","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112882","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Remote lakes have been recognized as ideal monitors of global change as they are far from direct human intervention and can record the natural variabilities of lake ecosystems in their sediments. Over the past century, biodiversity losses and ecological regime shifts have been detected worldwide in the context of global warming. However, regions and biological communities are not studied equally in current research on biodiversity and stability, and high-elevation areas and aquatic micro-organisms are particularly underrepresented. This study explores Qudonglaco, an alpine lake above the treeline in the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, highlighting changes in its biodiversity and ecosystem stability in response to environmental drivers over the past two centuries. The study reconstructed terrestrial inputs from catchment and diatom community composition using paleolimnological proxies of geochemical elements and diatom assemblages, and calculated changes in species diversity and multifaceted stability over time. Under the impact of climate change, the lake environment changed dramatically after the 1990s, leading to a stark shift from tychoplanktonic-dominated to benthic-dominated community composition, accompanied by an almost doubling of species richness. Since 1975 CE, temporal stability has declined, with increased Jaccard similarity and network connectance, and reduced heterogeneity since the 1990s, signaling a decline in community resilience. Compared with the ecosystem development of arctic lakes between 1850 and 2000 CE, the 150-year beta diversity of diatom community in this region was smaller yet has continued to rise. The multidimensional changes of community stability and biodiversity should be considered when assessing the impacts of headwaters on the lower-reach ecosystems, and more monitoring and observation of remote ecosystems as well as a unifying framework for quantifying community stability from paleo-archives is needed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19928,"journal":{"name":"Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology","volume":"667 ","pages":"Article 112882"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143619904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Calcareous plankton and shallow-water benthic biocalcifiers: Resilience and extinction across the Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event 2","authors":"Maria Rose Petrizzo ,&nbsp;Mariano Parente ,&nbsp;Francesca Falzoni ,&nbsp;Cinzia Bottini ,&nbsp;Gianluca Frijia ,&nbsp;Thomas Steuber ,&nbsp;Elisabetta Erba","doi":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112891","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112891","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE 2), spanning the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary (93.9 Ma), was an episode of major perturbation of the global carbon cycle. Its geochemical signature is a synchronous positive δ¹³C excursion in both carbonates and organic matter that resulted from the net burial of large amounts of organic carbon in deep-sea and hemipelagic settings.</div><div>Causes for OAE 2 are still the subject of investigations; however, several studies postulate that massive submarine volcanic activity emitted greenhouse gases and provided biolimiting metals in marine ecosystems, leading to the onset of the Cenomanian-Turonian thermal maximum and to the enhancement of ocean fertility. Ocean temperature, sea-surface stratification, nutrient availability, and carbonate ion saturation were subject to variations during OAE 2 that resulted in fluctuations in diversity abundance and calcification of species.</div><div>We analyzed the record of the main biocalcifiers of pelagic-hemipelagic settings (planktonic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossils) and of low-latitude carbonate platforms (larger benthic foraminifera and rudist bivalves) by looking at well-dated sections. Carbon isotope stratigraphy allowed precise correlation from shallow to deep water and tied the biotic response to the record of geochemical proxies of paleoenvironmental changes. The main extinction event, severely affecting the shallow-water benthic biocalcifiers and to a minor extent the calcareous plankton, occurred within and after the Plenus Cold Event. Fluctuations in surface seawater temperature and extreme warming were probably the main cause of extinction, with contributions from decreased seawater carbonate saturation and disruption of ocean stratification. Overall, calcareous plankton fared much better, showing a greater resilience than carbonate-platform biocalcifiers to paleoenvironmental perturbations across OAE 2.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19928,"journal":{"name":"Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology","volume":"668 ","pages":"Article 112891"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143739639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fossil vertebrates, biostratigraphy, biochronology and chronostratigraphy","authors":"Spencer G. Lucas","doi":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112890","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112890","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fossil vertebrates have been used to establish geological ages and correlations since the beginning of their scientific study by Georges Cuvier in the early 1800s. This work began with straightforward biostratigraphic analysis of vertebrate fossil distributions, and such analysis continues today. The North American land-mammal “ages,” first defined in 1941, represented the first explicit vertebrate biochronology. Since then, a biochronological approach has created much Phanerozoic biochronology in the form of land-mammal”ages,” land-vertebrate “ages” and land-vertebrate faunachrons. In marine settings, fossil fishes (especially Paleozoic ichthyoliths) have been employed in biostratigraphy. Paleozoic tetrapod fossils provide little useful chronology and correlation until the Middle Permian, when Pangea-wide tetrapod assemblages can be correlated based on some relatively cosmopolitan taxa and some locally abundant tetrapod assemblages. This continues through most of the Triassic, but, in Jurassic time provincialization of the tetrapod fauna and other factors have confounded attempts to develop useful vertebrate biostratigraphy and biochronology. The situation improves in the Cretaceous, when in some regions (especially the North American Western Interior basin) tetrapod fossils provide relatively detailed biostratigraphy and biochronology. Biochronological schemes using fossil mammals have proven to be particularly robust concepts used to divide Cenozoic time by land-mammal”ages.” Indeed, Cenozoic mammalian biochronology works so well in some regions (western USA) that little or no reference to the standard global chronostratigraphic scale below the level of epoch is made in age assignments and correlations. Land-mammal “ages” resolve time to about 1–3 million year intervals. They exemplify what can be achieved with vertebrate biochronology in terms of age determinations, correlations and placing vertebrate history into a broader framework of physical and biotic events. I thus advocate further development of such vertebrate biochronology for the entire fossil record of vertebrates. There also continues to be a need for more detailed stratigraphic data on vertebrate fossil distribution in order to refine current biochronological schemes, and I make some recommendations for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19928,"journal":{"name":"Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology","volume":"667 ","pages":"Article 112890"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143611594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate-change induced human migration and socio-political changes in eastern India during the Meghalayan age","authors":"Dipanwita Sengupta ,&nbsp;Som Dutt ,&nbsp;Sophie F. Warken ,&nbsp;Arvinash Singam ,&nbsp;Norbert Frank ,&nbsp;Sumit Sagwal ,&nbsp;Sakshi Maurya","doi":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112873","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112873","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Holocene climate records, available from the Indian subcontinent are in fragments, majority having low temporal resolution and illustrate regional variability in proxy response. The impact of climate fluctuations on contemporary societies has been discussed in general. However, region specific climate-cultural linkages have not been adequately represented. This study presents a four-millennia-long time-series of Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) variability from northeastern India using a U-Th dated stalagmite δ¹⁸O time series, particularly emphasising on the human development in eastern and northeastern India. The record exhibits ISM variability during ∼5.5 to ∼1.0 kyr BP. The results indicate weakened ISM conditions during 4.2–4.0 kyr BP and strong phases during 2.74–2.39 kyr BP and 1.42–0.97 kyr BP. The ISM fluctuations over the studied period had been significantly influenced by changes in the North Atlantic Oscillations (NAO), Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) latitudinal positioning and solar activity through teleconnections. Anthropological, historical and paleoclimatological evidences stitched together elucidate a story of climate induced human development in eastern and northeastern India. Signs of prosperous urban centres were evident in eastern India by ∼2.8 kyr BP and large kingdoms in this region established and rose to power between ∼1.3–0.9 kyr BP, mainly during the moderate to high ISM conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19928,"journal":{"name":"Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology","volume":"667 ","pages":"Article 112873"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Middle–Late Pennsylvanian event: Timing and mechanisms","authors":"Yixin Wang,&nbsp;Keyi Hu,&nbsp;Xunyan Ye,&nbsp;Xiangdong Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112893","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112893","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Late Palaeozoic Ice Age (LPIA) was associated with climate fluctuations, significant biotic changes, the late Desmoinesian extinction, the conodont <em>Idiognathodus</em> diversification, and the “Carboniferous rainforest collapse”. These changes occurred in both marine and terrestrial realms during the Middle–Late Pennsylvanian, approximately 307–303.7 Ma. The timing, mechanisms, and magnitude of these events, especially the marine events, are poorly understood due to the scarcity of continuous Pennsylvanian successions and the challenges of international correlations caused by frequent glacio-eustatic transgressions and regressions during the LPIA. In southern Guizhou, South China, slope carbonate successions were deposited with abundant conodonts, providing opportunities to study these events. Based on materials from the Naqing, Shanglong, and Narao sections, conodont biostratigraphy, strontium and oxygen isotopes of conodont apatite, and carbon isotope of bulk rock across the Middle–Upper Pennsylvanian boundary interval are presented. Conodont zones, namely the late Moscovian <em>Idiognathodus podolskensis</em>, <em>Neognathodus roundyi,</em> and <em>Swadelina</em> sp. A zones, the Kasimovian <em>Sw</em>. <em>subexcelsa</em>, <em>Sw</em>. <em>makhlinae</em>, <em>I</em>. <em>heckeli</em>, <em>I</em>. <em>turbatus</em>, <em>I. magnificus</em>, “<em>I</em>.” <em>guizhouensis</em>, <em>Heckelina eudoraensis</em>, and “<em>I</em>.” <em>naraoensis</em> zones, and the Gzhelian <em>H. simulator</em> Zone are recognized. Focused on late Moscovian to early Kasimovian, three phases of environmental and biotic changes during the <em>Sw</em>. sp. A and <em>I. magnificus</em> zones are recognized. The first to second phases during the <em>Sw</em>. sp. A and <em>Sw</em>. <em>subexcelsa</em> zones are correlated with the dominance of rainforest biomes changing from cordaitaleans and lycopsids to marattialean trees. The second to the third phases during the <em>Sw</em>. <em>subexcelsa</em> and <em>I. magnificus</em> zones correlate with the late Desmoinesian extinction event, and radiation of <em>Idiognathodus</em> species. A general warming trend of ∼4–6 °C temperature rise calculated by δ¹⁸O could partly explain the aridification and collapse of rainforests. Changes in continental weathering were considered to partly drive the extinction and then radiation of conodonts during the middle–late Kasimovian supported by ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr and δ¹⁸O of conodont apatite.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19928,"journal":{"name":"Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology","volume":"667 ","pages":"Article 112893"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143611593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating planktic foraminiferal resilience during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) in the Atlantic Ocean","authors":"Silvia Sigismondi ,&nbsp;Valeria Luciani ,&nbsp;Laia Alegret ,&nbsp;Thomas Westerhold","doi":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112867","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112867","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO), centered around ∼40 Ma, is characterized by a steady decline in marine bulk and benthic carbonate δ¹⁸O values by approximately ∼1 ‰ over ∼400 kyr. This is typically interpreted as a 3–6 °C increase in global temperatures, followed by a rapid return to pre-event conditions. This event is increasingly attracting scientific attention, as it represents a natural experiment of the temperatures and pCO₂ levels that Earth may reach by the end of this century if anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced. The δ¹³C signal, along with biotic and paleoceanographic changes across the MECO, exhibits significant geographic heterogeneity, making this event still enigmatic. In particular, the biotic response remains poorly constrained. Here, we aim to address this gap by focusing on planktic foraminifera, which are highly sensitive to the physical and chemical state of the oceans and can offer a valuable long-term perspective on marine ecosystem resilience to global warming. We selected Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1051, 1263, and 702, which cover different latitudinal settings across the Atlantic Ocean and provide established age models and stable isotope constraints. Planktic foraminifera display a pronounced assemblage turnover across the MECO, primarily related to an increase in surface-water temperature that altered pelagic food webs. The intense warming caused a southward migration of warm-index taxa at Site 702, as also recorded for calcareous nannofossils. The warm-index <em>“</em>Large <em>Acarinina”</em> (&gt;150 μm) shows a marked and permanent decline within ∼250 kyr during the late stage of the MECO at Sites 1051 and 702, approximately 2 Myr before their evolutionary disappearance at the Bartonian-Priabonian boundary. This decline is widespread, being also recorded in the Tethys. We speculate that changes in microalgal symbionts may have impacted the success of this group. We also document a drop in the abundance of the genus <em>Chiloguembelina</em>, possibly related to enhanced oxygenation of its ecological niche, the oxygen deficient zone (ODZ). The planktic foraminiferal assemblages, though demonstrating some degree of plasticity by absorbing periodic stress extremes through community modifications and latitudinal migration, did not recover their pre-disturbance state. This indicates low stability during the MECO event and ultimately lack of resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19928,"journal":{"name":"Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology","volume":"667 ","pages":"Article 112867"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143611591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the association between temperature and multiple ecomorphological traits of biocalcifiers (Brachiopoda)","authors":"Facheng Ye ,&nbsp;Maria Aleksandra Bitner","doi":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112883","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112883","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>An increasing number of studies have addressed the varied responses of different phylogenetically specific groups to climate change. However, the dominant mechanisms and robust data-driven evidence remain underexplored. This study investigated the environmental resilience of biocalcifiers, with a focus on living brachiopods – organisms that have persisted throughout Earth's geo-history and serve as vital archives of marine life. By analysing the biogeographical patterns of brachiopods, we assessed the influence of temperature on ecomorphological traits such as species richness, environmental tolerance, shell mineralisation and ornamentation, and other shell morphologies. Using the latest comprehensive database and advanced computational tools, including correlation analysis and machine learning, we uncovered moderate relationships between temperature and these traits. Machine-learning models achieved a temperature prediction performance with a root mean squared error (RMSE) of approximately 5 °C when incorporating all tested variables. Our findings highlight the significant role of macroevolutionary adaptation history in shaping brachiopod biogeographical patterns, as evidenced by strong Spatial Autocorrelation phenomena of the tested ecomorphological-trait variables. This study not only advances our understanding of brachiopod ecology and biogeography but also contributes to broader discussions on climate change, biodiversity, and the resilience of marine ecosystems. By integrating traditional and novel methodologies, we provide a framework for exploring complex ecological interactions, offering insights into the resilience of marine ecosystems and tackling current global challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19928,"journal":{"name":"Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology","volume":"667 ","pages":"Article 112883"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143611592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}