Effects of Rapid Global Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary on Neotropical Vegetation

Author:

Jaramillo Carlos1,Ochoa Diana12,Contreras Lineth134,Pagani Mark5,Carvajal-Ortiz Humberto16,Pratt Lisa M.6,Krishnan Srinath5,Cardona Agustin1,Romero Millerlandy1,Quiroz Luis17,Rodriguez Guillermo38,Rueda Milton J.39,de la Parra Felipe3,Morón Sara110,Green Walton1,Bayona German111,Montes Camilo111,Quintero Oscar12,Ramirez Rafael13,Mora Germán14,Schouten Stefan15,Bermudez Hermann16,Navarrete Rosa17,Parra Francisco18,Alvarán Mauricio16,Osorno Jose19,Crowley James L.20,Valencia Victor21,Vervoort Jeff22

Affiliation:

1. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancon Republic of Panama.

2. Department of Biological Sciences, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614–14850, USA.

3. Colombian Petroleum Institute, Km 7 Via Piedecuesta, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

4. Institute of Geosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Altenhöferallee 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

5. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

6. Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.

7. Department of Geology, University of Saskatchewan, 114 Science Place, Saskatoon SK, Canada.

8. Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409–0140, USA.

9. Paleoflora Limitada, Calle 9 No. 9-09, Zapatoca, Colombia.

10. Department of Geology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455–0231, USA.

11. Corporación Geológica Ares, Calle 57 N.24-11 ofic. 202, Bogotá, Colombia.

12. Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) Exploración, Nucleoteca La Concepción, Maracaibo, Venezuela.

13. PDVSA Exploración, Edificio Guaraguao Puerto de la Cruz, Venezuela.

14. Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore, MD 21204, USA.

15. Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, Post Office Box 59, 1790 AB, Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands.

16. Department of Geological Sciences, University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia.

17. Paleosedes, Tv 27 No. 57-49 Bogota, Colombia.

18. Université Paul Sabatier, CU Ponsan Bellevue, Rue Maurice Becanne, 31078 Tolulouse CX 04, France.

19. Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos, Bogotá, Colombia.

20. Department of Geosciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725–1535, USA.

21. Valencia Geoservices, Tucson, AZ 85712, USA.

22. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164–2812, USA.

Abstract

Hot Tropical Explosion The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 55 million years ago, was a unique episode of rapid global warming (∼5°C), often used as an ancient analog for future global climate change. Climate alteration during the PETM has been extensively studied in the marine realm, and from a few temperate to polar terrestrial localities, but little is known about how the tropics responded to the high temperatures and high levels of CO 2 . Using evidence from pollen analysis, Jaramillo et al. (p. 957 ) show that rapid tropical forest diversification occurred during the PETM, without plant extinction or regional aridity. Unexpectedly, diversity seemed to increase at higher temperatures, contradicting previous assumptions that tropical flora will succumb if temperatures become excessive.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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