Our planet is changing, and one of the most pressing challenges facing the scientific
community revolves around understanding how ecological communities respond to global …

The biodiversity of deep-sea ecosystems is closely linked to orbital and suborbital climate
changes during the late Quaternary as documented by the diversity and species …

Coastal hypoxia (defined here as< 1.42 ml L− 1; 62.5 μM; 2 mg L− 1, approx. 30% oxygen
saturation) develops seasonally in many estuaries, fjords, and along open coasts as a result …

Deep-sea benthic foraminifera live in the largest habitat on Earth, constitute an important
part of its benthic biomass, and form diverse assemblages with common cosmopolitan …

The South China Sea is the largest low‐latitude marginal sea on the globe. For a long time,
researchers from various fields have been curious about the sea. For instance, geologists …

An asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous caused mass extinction, but extinction
mechanisms are not well-understood. The collapse of sea surface to sea floor carbon …

Marine sediments from the North Pacific document two episodes of expansion and
strengthening of the subsurface oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) accompanied by seafloor …

The CO 2 concentration of air has increased over the last two centuries and recently
surpassed 400 ppm. Carbon cycle models project CO 2 concentrations of 720 to 1000 ppm …

Antarctic continental‐scale glaciation is generally assumed to have initiated at the Eocene‐
Oligocene Transition, yet its subsequent evolution is poorly constrained. We reconstruct …

Plate tectonics and eustatic sea-level changes have fundamental effects on
paleoenvironmental conditions and bio-ecological changes. The Paratethys Sea was a …