Tropical Atlantic climate and ecosystem regime shifts during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

Frieling, Joost; Reichart, Gert-Jan; Middelburg, Jack J.; Röhl, Ursula; Westerhold, Thomas; Bohaty, Steven M.; Sluijs, Appy

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-39-2018

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-39-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-39-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Research article

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15 Jan 2018

Research article |

| 15 Jan 2018

Tropical Atlantic climate and ecosystem regime shifts during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

Joost Frieling, Gert-Jan Reichart, Jack J. Middelburg, Ursula Röhl, Thomas Westerhold, Steven M. Bohaty, and Appy Sluijs

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RC1: 'Cp-2017-76 Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Jul 2017
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer #1', Joost Frieling, 13 Sep 2017
RC2: 'Reviewer 2 comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 28 Jul 2017
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer #2', Joost Frieling, 13 Sep 2017

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by Editor) (09 Oct 2017) by Luc Beaufort

AR by Joost Frieling on behalf of the Authors (25 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (13 Nov 2017) by Luc Beaufort

Short summary

Past periods of rapid global warming such as the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum are used to study biotic response to climate change. We show that very high peak PETM temperatures in the tropical Atlantic (~ 37 ºC) caused heat stress in several marine plankton groups. However, only slightly cooler temperatures afterwards allowed highly diverse plankton communities to bloom. This shows that tropical plankton communities may be susceptible to extreme warming, but may also recover rapidly.