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Coupled otolith and foraminifera oxygen and carbon stable isotopes evidence paleoceanographic changes and fish metabolic responses
Konstantina Agiadi
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Department of Geology, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2 (UZA II), 1090 Vienna, Austria
Iuliana Vasiliev
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Geanina Butiseacă
Palaeoanthropology Working Group, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Geosciences, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Rümelinstraße 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
George Kontakiotis
Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15784 Athens, Greece
Danae Thivaiou
Natural History Museum of Basel, Augustinergasse 2, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Evangelia Besiou
Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15784 Athens, Greece
Stergios Zarkogiannis
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK
Efterpi Koskeridou
Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15784 Athens, Greece
Assimina Antonarakou
Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 15784 Athens, Greece
Andreas Mulch
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Department of Geosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Seven million years ago, the marine gateway connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean started to close, and, as a result, water circulation ceased. To find out how this phenomenon affected the fish living in the Mediterranean Sea, we examined the changes in the isotopic composition of otoliths of two common fish species. Although the species living at the surface fared pretty well, the bottom-water fish starved and eventually became extinct in the Mediterranean.
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