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Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-2177-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-2177-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 21, issue 9
Ideas and perspectives
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03 May 2024
Ideas and perspectives |  | 03 May 2024

Ideas and perspectives: Human impacts alter the marine fossil record

Rafał Nawrot, Martin Zuschin, Adam Tomašových, Michał Kowalewski, and Daniele Scarponi

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The youngest fossil record is a crucial source of data on the history of marine ecosystems and their long-term alteration by humans. However, human activities that reshape ecosystems also alter sedimentary and biological processes that control the formation of the geological archives recording those impacts. Thus, humans have been transforming the marine fossil record in ways that affect our ability to reconstruct past ecological and climate dynamics.
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