Nineteenth-century emergence of a seafloor ecosystem beyond late Quaternary limits
- the past few centuries characterized by outsized human impacts - are distinct compared to any point in the last 34,000 years. Novel ecosystem states and heightened variability began in the early 1800s AD, suggesting that colonial-era human land-use drove the emergence of a novel ecosystem state more than a century before global climate warming began in earnest.
Authors
- Richard Norris
- Ingrid Hendy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8305-6752)
- Ivo Duijnstee
- Sara S Kahanamoku (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4157-4791)
- Seth Finnegan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6175-6173)
Institutions
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (PA)
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (US)
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
- Published
- 2026-04-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.26.720923
- Primary Topic
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00