Climatic influences on deep-sea ostracode (Crustacea) diversity for the last three million years

• Published in: Ecology
• Main Authors: Cronin, TM, Yasuhara, M
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Ecological Society of America. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.esajournals.org/loi/ecol 2008
• Subjects: Ostracoda; Paleoclimate; Paleoceanography; Pliocene; Species diversity; Quaternary; Productivity; Deep sea; Macroecology; Temperature; Metazoan benthos; Arctic; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Rockall Plateau; Foraminifera*; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1890/07-1021.1; http://hdl.handle.net/10722/132788

Ostracodes are small, bivalved crustaceans with the finest-scale fossil resolution of any metazoan, rivaled only by the fossil record of the protistan Foraminifera. This article presents a synthesis of the patterns and possible causes of alpha species diversity variation in benthic deep-sea ostracod...