Major impacts of climate change on deep-sea benthic ecosystems

AK Sweetman, AR Thurber, CR Smith, LA Levin… - Elem Sci …, 2017 - online.ucpress.edu
The deep sea encompasses the largest ecosystems on Earth. Although poorly known, deep
seafloor ecosystems provide services that are vitally important to the entire ocean and …

Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

Past Interglacials Working Group of … - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Interglacials, including the present (Holocene) period, are warm, low land ice extent (high
sea level), end‐members of glacial cycles. Based on a sea level definition, we identify …

Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years

EJ Rohling, GL Foster, KM Grant, G Marino, AP Roberts… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Ice volume (and hence sea level) and deep-sea temperature are key measures of global
climate change. Sea level has been documented using several independent methods over …

Evolution of ocean temperature and ice volume through the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

H Elderfield, P Ferretti, M Greaves, S Crowhurst… - science, 2012 - science.org
Earth's climate underwent a fundamental change between 1250 and 700 thousand years
ago, the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT), when the dominant periodicity of climate cycles …

[HTML][HTML] The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: Methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data …

CJ Hollis, T Dunkley Jones… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
The early Eocene (56 to 48 million years ago) is inferred to have been the most recent time
that Earth's atmospheric CO 2 concentrations exceeded 1000 ppm. Global mean …

Regional and global benthic δ18O stacks for the last glacial cycle

LE Lisiecki, JV Stern - Paleoceanography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although detailed age models exist for some marine sediment records of the last glacial
cycle (0–150 ka), age models for many cores rely on the stratigraphic correlation of benthic …

Mean global ocean temperatures during the last glacial transition

B Bereiter, S Shackleton, D Baggenstos, K Kawamura… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Little is known about the ocean temperature's long-term response to climate perturbations
owing to limited observations and a lack of robust reconstructions. Although most of the …

Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

IS Castañeda, S Mulitza, E Schefuß… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The carbon isotopic composition of individual plant leaf waxes (a proxy for C3 vs. C4
vegetation) in a marine sediment core collected from beneath the plume of Sahara-derived …

Sea level and deep-sea temperature reconstructions suggest quasi-stable states and critical transitions over the past 40 million years

EJ Rohling, J Yu, D Heslop, GL Foster, B Opdyke… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Sea level and deep-sea temperature variations are key indicators of global climate changes.
For continuous records over millions of years, deep-sea carbonate microfossil–based δ18O …

13C–18O isotope signatures and 'clumped isotope'thermometry in foraminifera and coccoliths

AK Tripati, RA Eagle, N Thiagarajan… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2010 - Elsevier
Accurate constraints on past ocean temperatures and compositions are critical for
documenting climate change and resolving its causes. Most proxies for temperature are not …