Palaeontological evidence for community-level decrease in mesopelagic fish size during Pleistocene climate warming in the eastern Mediterranean
K. Agiadi, F. Quillevere, R. Nawrot, T. Sommeville, M. Coll, E. Koskeridou, J. Fietzke, M. Zuschin
The paper uses fossil otoliths to show a 35% decline in median lanternfish size during Pleistocene warming in the eastern Mediterranean, with species showing mixed size trends.
bioRxiv · Oct 4, 2022Paleontology