Phytoplankton community disruption caused by latest Cretaceous global warming

Vellekoop, Johan; Woelders, Lineke; Sluijs, Appy; Miller, Kenneth G.; Speijer, Robert P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4201-2019

Articles | Volume 16, issue 21

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4201-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4201-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 21

Research article

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07 Nov 2019

Research article |

| 07 Nov 2019

Phytoplankton community disruption caused by latest Cretaceous global warming

Johan Vellekoop, Lineke Woelders, Appy Sluijs, Kenneth G. Miller, and Robert P. Speijer

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RC1: 'Review of Phytoplankton community disruption caused by latest Cretaceous global warming by Vellekoop et al.', Nicolas Thibault, 05 Aug 2019
- AC2: 'Response to RC1', Johan Vellekoop, 26 Sep 2019
RC2: 'Review', Kasia K. Sliwinska, 23 Aug 2019
- AC1: 'Author rebuttal to RC1 & RC2', Johan Vellekoop, 26 Sep 2019

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Our micropaleontological analyses on three cores from New Jersey (USA) show that the late Maastrichtian warming event (66.4–66.1 Ma), characterized by a ~ 4.0 °C warming of sea waters on the New Jersey paleoshelf, resulted in a disruption of phytoplankton communities and a stressed benthic ecosystem. This increased ecosystem stress during the latest Maastrichtian potentially primed global ecosystems for the subsequent mass extinction following the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary impact.