Paleoecology and evolutionary response of planktonic foraminifera to the mid-Pliocene Warm Period and Plio-Pleistocene bipolar ice sheet expansion

• Published in: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: A. Woodhouse, F. A. Procter, S. L. Jackson, R. A. Jamieson, R. J. Newton, P. F. Sexton, T. Aze
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2023
• Subjects: Ecology; QH540-549.5; Life; QH501-531; Geology; QE1-996.5; Pacific; Triton; Ice Sheet; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-121-2023; https://doaj.org/article/a6e2fd1630ee49a791cab704816ef202

The Pliocene-Recent is associated with many important climatic and paleoceanographic changes, which have shaped the biotic and abiotic nature of the modern world. The closure of the Central American Seaway and the development and intensification of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets had profound global...