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dc.contributor.authorBeasley, C
dc.contributor.authorCotton, L
dc.contributor.authorAl-Suwaidi, A
dc.contributor.authorLeVay, L
dc.contributor.authorSluijs, A
dc.contributor.authorUllmann, CV
dc.contributor.authorHesselbo, SP
dc.contributor.authorLittler, K
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-16T08:48:35Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-22
dc.description.abstractThe Paleocene–Eocene transition was a time of short-term rapid climatic and biotic change, superimposed on a long-term warming trend. The response of shallow tropical carbonate systems to past rapid warming is important to understand in the context of ongoing and future anthropogenic global warming. Larger benthic foraminifera (LBF) were abundant and important components of shallow water ecosystems throughout the early Paleogene and are sensitive to environmental change, making them ideal organisms to track shallow marine biodiversity. Furthermore, through the use of integrated bio- and chemostratigraphy it is possible to correlate the shallow (<100 m) and deep water realms to create a regional stratigraphic framework for the time period. Here we present a new LBF biostratigraphic and high-resolution carbonate carbon isotopic record spanning the Paleocene– Eocene transition from the onshore sub-surface of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Results show a turnover event in the LBF assemblage during the early Eocene, wherein there are a number of first and last occurrences of species. However, assemblages remain generally stable coincident with the large negative carbon isotope excursion interpreted to be the onset of the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM). Turnover in the LBF assemblage in the early Eocene likely occurred due to the crossing of a long-term climatic and oceanographic threshold. The impacts of this long-term climatic change on the overall biotic assemblage at this site are significant, with LBF outcompeting a previously diverse community of corals, gastropods, and bivalves to become the dominant carbonate producers through the Paleocene–Eocene transition. Despite this, modern studies suggest that LBF are not immune to impacts of anthropogenic climate change, perhaps due to the significantly higher rates of change in the modern compared to the Paleocene–Eocene transition.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipNatural Environment Research Council (NERC)en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Research Council (ERC)en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 54 (1), pp. 79–106en_GB
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/M00578Xen_GB
dc.identifier.grantnumber771497en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/121468
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherBorntraeger Science Publishersen_GB
dc.rights© 2020 The Authors. Open access article under a CC BY 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectPaleogeneen_GB
dc.subjectlarger benthic foraminiferaen_GB
dc.subjectpalaeoenvironmenten_GB
dc.subjectbiodiversityen_GB
dc.subjectPETMen_GB
dc.subjectshallow marineen_GB
dc.subjectcarbonatesen_GB
dc.titleTriumph and tribulation for shallow water fauna during the Paleocene–Eocene transition; insights from the United Arab Emiratesen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2020-06-16T08:48:35Z
dc.identifier.issn0078-0421
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from Borntraeger Science Publishers via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalNewsletters on Stratigraphyen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-05-27
rioxxterms.versionVoRen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2020-05-27
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2020-06-15T13:49:04Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2021-03-10T13:46:05Z
refterms.panelBen_GB


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