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| Title |
Equatorial decline of reef corals during the last Pleistocene interglacial
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| Published in |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, December 2012
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| DOI | 10.1073/pnas.1214037110 |
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| Authors |
Wolfgang Kiessling, Carl Simpson, Brian Beck, Heike Mewis, John M. Pandolfi |
| Abstract |
The Last Interglacial (LIG; ca. 125,000 y ago) resulted from rapid global warming and reached global mean temperatures exceeding those of today. The LIG thus offers the opportunity to study how life may respond to future global warming. Using global occurrence databases and applying sampling-standardization, we compared reef coral diversity and distributions between the LIG and modern. Latitudinal diversity patterns are characterized by a tropical plateau today but were characterized by a pronounced equatorial trough during the LIG. This trough is governed by substantial range shifts away from the equator. Range shifts affected both leading and trailing edges of species range limits and were much more pronounced in the Northern Hemisphere than south of the equator. We argue that interglacial warming was responsible for the loss of equatorial diversity. Hemispheric differences in insolation during the LIG may explain the asymmetrical response. The equatorial retractions are surprisingly strong given that only small temperature changes have been reported in the LIG tropics. Our results suggest that the poleward range expansions of reef corals occurring with intensified global warming today may soon be followed by equatorial range retractions. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 21 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 19% |
| Germany | 2 | 10% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 5% |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 5% |
| Chile | 1 | 5% |
| Sweden | 1 | 5% |
| Norway | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 10 | 48% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 62% |
| Scientists | 7 | 33% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 158 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| Brazil | 2 | 1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 146 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 46 | 29% |
| Student > Master | 28 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 16% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 10 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 24 | 15% |
| Unknown | 15 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 51 | 32% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 31 | 20% |
| Environmental Science | 25 | 16% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 17 | 11% |
| Unknown | 23 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 153. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 January 2024.
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