H2020Индивидуална стипендия2016–2017

BIOCLIMA · Microbial BIOdiversity – CLIMAte feedbacks during environmental crises in semi-enclosed basins: lessons from the Late Miocene (Messinian)

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2016-01-01 → 2017-12-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 171 461 €
Участници: 2
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Микробиалното биоразнообразие в Средиземно море се анализира чрез геохимични методи, за да се разбере как микроорганизмите са реагирали на климатичната криза в късния миоцен. Това помага да се разберат връзките между промените в климата и екосистемите в полузатворените басейни.

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Microbial BIOdiversity – CLIMAte feedbacks during environmental crises in semi-enclosed basins: lessons from the Late Miocene (Messinian)

BIOCLIMA focused on the impact of climate change on the microbial biodiversity in semi-enclosed basins. In particular, the project looked into ecosystem response to environmental crisis during the late Miocene (Messinian) salinity crisis (MSC) in the Mediterranean Sea. In the light of the scarcity to absence of body fossils in the Messinian sedimentary sequences, BIOCLIMA used a multidisciplinary approach, combining inorganic and organic geochemical proxies, for paleoclimate, paleoenvironmental and paleoecological reconstructions. The project aimed to analyze the Messinian sediments for climate variations across the pronounced environmental change that affected the Mediterranean Sea during the Late Miocene. The ultimate goal was to investigate the response of marine microorganisms to the above mentioned changes at the onset of the MSC.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The BIOCLIMA project will explore the impact of climate change on microbial biodiversity in semi-enclosed basins in order to decipher ecosystem response to environmental crises, at a temporal scale much longer than that of human life. The Late Miocene Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) will serve as case study. This dramatic paleoceanographic event resulted in the establishment of harsh conditions (eutrophication, hypersalinity and anoxia) at the scale of a whole marine basin, which was lethal for most eukaryotes but allowed some extremophile prokaryotes to flourish. The BIOCLIMA project will address two main aspects:1)Tempo and modes of climate variability recorded by MSC sediments. The project will investigate the sedimentary cyclicity recorded by Messinian deposits (carbonates, sulfates, and shales), which was related to climate oscillations at various time scales. 2)The microbial community structures and the modes of adaptation of the microorganisms that inhabited the paleo-Mediterranean at the advent of and during the MSC, allowing to identify the response of microbial life to climate-controlled environmental change.The project will be based on a multidisciplinary approach, applying cutting-edge sedimentological, geochemical, and geomicrobiological methods. The wider impacts of BIOCLIMA are: i) a contribution to our understanding of the biological adaptation to environmental crises; ii) establishing a catalogue of biosignatures in evaporites that will help to recognize and classify past life in ancient extreme environments on Earth and Mars.The Fellow will greatly benefit from the training in state-of-the-art methods of Organic Geochemistry and Geomicrobiology in Vienna, and increase his analytical skills in the Petrology and Geochemistry of evaporites during a secondment at the University of Barcelona.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG · HamburgКоординаторГермания
UNIVERSITAT WIEN · WienАвстрия