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Eighty-five million years of Pacific Ocean gyre ecosystem structure: long-term
stability marked by punctuated change
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Sibert E
; Norris R
; Cuevas J
; Graves L
Proc Biol Sci
2016[May]; 283
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While the history of taxonomic diversification in open ocean lineages of
ray-finned fish and elasmobranchs is increasingly known, the evolution of their
roles within the open ocean ecosystem remains poorly understood. To assess the
relative importance of these groups through time, we measured the accumulation
rate of microfossil fish teeth and elasmobranch dermal denticles (ichthyoliths)
in deep-sea sediment cores from the North and South Pacific gyres over the past
85 million years (Myr). We find three distinct and stable open ocean ecosystem
structures, each defined by the relative and absolute abundance of elasmobranch
and ray-finned fish remains. The Cretaceous Ocean (pre-66 Ma) was characterized
by abundant elasmobranch denticles, but low abundances of fish teeth. The
Palaeogene Ocean (66-20 Ma), initiated by the Cretaceous/Palaeogene mass
extinction, had nearly four times the abundance of fish teeth compared with
elasmobranch denticles. This Palaeogene Ocean structure remained stable during
the Eocene greenhouse (50 Ma) and the Eocene-Oligocene glaciation (34 Ma),
despite large changes in the overall accumulation of both groups during those
intervals, suggesting that climate change is not a primary driver of ecosystem
structure. Dermal denticles virtually disappeared from open ocean ichthyolith
assemblages approximately 20 Ma, while fish tooth accumulation increased
dramatically in variability, marking the beginning of the Modern Ocean. Together,
these results suggest that open ocean fish community structure is stable on long
timescales, independent of total production and climate change. The timing of the
abrupt transitions between these states suggests that the transitions may be due
to interactions with other, non-preserved pelagic consumer groups.