Quaternary coral reef refugia preserved fish diversity
2014
Pellissier, Loïc | Leprieur, Fabien | Parravicini, Valeriano | Cowman, Peter F. | Kulbicki, Michel | Litsios, Glenn | Olsen, Steffen M. | Wisz, Mary S. | Bellwood, David R. | Mouillot, David
Ancient reefs provided fishy refuges Climate fluctuations have occurred repeatedly in Earth's history, and so there is much to be learned from examining the responses of past systems. Pellessier et al. reconstructed paleoenvironments over the past 3 million years from sediment cores collected across coral reef systems to explore the impacts of past conditions on reef fish diversity. Coral reefs survived in the Indo-Australian regions during times of otherwise extensive habitat loss. These robust reefs can explain much of the diversity found in present-day reef fish species. Science , this issue p. 1016
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