Linking zooplankton time series to the fossil record
Linking zooplankton time series to the fossil record
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DOI：
10.1093/icesjms/fsab123
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发表时间：
2021-07-07
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Kucera, Michal
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作者：
Jonkers, Lukas;Meilland, Julie;Kucera, Michal
海洋浮游动物时间序列对于了解海洋生态系统的动态至关重要。然而，大多数观测时间序列只有几十年的时间，这限制了我们对浮游动物长期动态的理解，使观测到的趋势与全球变化的关系变得模糊不清，并妨碍预测未来对环境变化的反应。浮游有孔虫是钙化海洋浮游动物，具有独特的潜力，大大扩展了我们对浮游生物动态的看法，因为它们的骨骼遗骸在深海沉积物中保存了数百万年。因此，连接沉积和现代时间序列提供了巨大的潜力，研究浮游动物的动态跨越时间尺度无法直接观察。然而，这种联系是很少和潜在的浮游有孔虫为推进我们的浮游动物动力学的理解仍然未充分利用。这种潜在的桥梁时间尺度的利用不足，主要是因为生物学家之间缺乏合作，谁主要集中在其他（动物园）浮游生物，和微体古生物学家，谁集中在化石有孔虫过于狭隘。通过这篇启发思考的文章，我们旨在突出南极有孔虫的独特潜力，以弥合生物学和地质学之间的差距。我们坚信，这种合作对两个科学界都有很大的好处。
Marine zooplankton time series are crucial to understand the dynamics of pelagic ecosystems. However, most observational time series are only a few decades long, which limits our understanding of long-term zooplankton dynamics, renders attribution of observed trends to global change ambiguous, and hampers prediction of future response to environmental change. Planktonic foraminifera are calcifying marine zooplankton that have the unique potential to substantially extend our view on plankton dynamics because their skeletal remains are preserved for millions of years in deep-sea sediments. Thus, linking sedimentary and modern time series offers great potential to study zooplankton dynamics across time scales not accessible by direct observations. However, this link is rarely made and the potential of planktonic foraminifera for advancing our understanding of zooplankton dynamics remains underexploited. This underutilization of this potential to bridge time scales is mainly because of the lack of collaboration between biologists, who have mostly focused on other (zoo)plankton, and micropalaeontologists, who have focussed too narrowly on fossil foraminifera. With this food for thought article, we aim to highlight the unique potential of planktonic foraminifera to bridge the gap between biology and geology. We strongly believe that such collaboration has large benefits to both scientific communities.