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Projekt
Influence of ocean gateways on the evolution of marine species: A biometric approach
Antragsteller
Dr. Hanno Kinkel
Fachliche Zuordnung
Paläontologie
Förderung
Förderung von 2001 bis 2007
Projektkennung
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 5468851
The main focus of this subproject is the influence of closure and re-opening of oceanic gateways on the evolution and biogeography of planktic and benthic organisms and their impact on the carbon cycle. Study areas are the Panama Isthmus as an example of a gateway that closed during the Neogene with fundamental effects on thermohaline circulation and climate, and the Strait of Gibraltar as an example for a gateway that, after the salinity crisis at the end of the Messinian, re-opened again in the Pliocene. We aim to apply a variety of (paleo-) biological methods (skeletal biometry, ecology, molecular genetics) to quantify the rates and speed of evolution and migration in the marine biosphere and its interaction with the environment... The results will add to better understanding of the fundamental mechanismus of speciation, extinction, and migration in the open-ocean realm and of their difference from evolutionary processes in the benthic realm.
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Beteiligte Person
Professorin Dr. Priska Schäfer
