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Nineteenth-century emergence of a seafloor ecosystem beyond late Quaternary limits
Sara S. Kahanamoku, Ivo A. P. Duijnstee, Ingrid Hendy…·Seth Finnegan
This study examines benthic ecosystem changes in the Santa Barbara Basin over 34,000 years, finding that early 19th-century human land-use initiated a novel ecosystem state distinct from the last 34,000 years.
DOI 10.64898/2026.04.26.720923