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Living Earth:
From plate tectonics to biodiversity and
from Andes to Atlantic
by Carina Hoorn
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CONTENT
What is biodiversity?
Origins and drivers of biodiversity
How did Amazonia and its biodiversity evolve?
Threats to biodiversity
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Biodiversity under threat!
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What do we know about
biodiversity?
When and where did it start?
How will it end?
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Biodiversity is a product of geological processes- Plate tectonics unique to Earth -
MarsEarth
4 billion years of continental breakup, seafloor spreading,
volcanism, mountain formation and erosion.
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Origin of complex life c. 0.5 billion years ago- Rise in biodiversity after 5th mass extinction -
Biodiversity through time
(Benton, 2016, PLOS)
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Life on Land – Present biodiversity
50
100
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Diversity zones:
Number of vascular plant
species per 10,000 km 2
a
b
Non-flying mammal diversity
per ~10,000 km adjusted to
remove human influence
(see legend for full details)
2
Latitude, Topography and Climate determine Biodiversity
Hoorn et al., 2018 (modified after Barthlott et al., 1999)
Plant diversity
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Drivers of biodiversity
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Climate determines biodiversity
Zachos et al., 2008
Icehouse world
Greenhouse world Titanoboa (si.edu)
Glossotherium
(and others; Rio)
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Species pump (isolation, connectivity) & refugia
Altitudinal gradient Relief changes & erosion
Immigration pre-adapted
alpine taxa
Mosbrugger et al., 2018; Muellner-Riehl, 2019
Habitat heterogeneity (from mountain uplift and climate
change)
Mountain uplift determines biodiversity
Antonelli et al., 2018
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From Andes to Amazon
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Subandes/foreland Amazon submarine fan
The Amazon River is the largest river basin in the world
Andes
The Andes – Amazonian continuum
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The Andes, a hotspot of biodiversity
Humboldt’s vision of Nature (1807)
Humboldt 250th
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Credits: ESA - European Space Agency.
Andean sediments fertilize west Amazonian soils
The intertwined relation between Andes
and Amazonia
Amazon-born river
Andes-born river
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Amazonia, extremely species-rich
ter Steege, 2010, ATDN & Wiley c. 16000 tree species
How and when did species richness originate?
Did humans alter forest composition since c. 12.500 BP?
Can the forest recover from human inflicted damage?
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Amazonian-born rivers have
a long history
Angel Falls, Venezuela (photo L. Carillo)
c. 65-10 Ma
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Andean influence in Amazonia- Megawetland formation (c. 23 - 9 Ma) -
A cradle of speciation
Iquitos, Peru
Purussaurus, Peru
Inia, Amazon River
Andean fluvio-lacustrine deposits cover over
a million km2 in Western Amazonia
Evidence from the fossil record
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Marine influence in Amazonia- Relicts of coastal flora and fauna -
Bernal et al., 2019, J of Biogeogr.
Plicodontinia (dolphin)
c. 23 - 12 Ma
Soil fertility
Soil fertility
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Transition towards the modern fluvial landscape
Acre – late Miocene fluvial deposits
c. 9 - 5 Ma
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From Andes to Atlantic
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Evidence from the Atlantic- Influences from Land at Sea -
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Sediments: Archive of Amazon
history
Nutrients: compost of the
Ocean Credits: Ifremer
(2010)
Sea surface salinity
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Onset Amazon River is marked by a change
in sediment composition at c. 9.4 – 9 Ma
Watts et al., 2009
Hoorn et al., 2017
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Rise in primary productivity in the Atlantic
follows development of Amazon River
Lammertsma et al., 2018, Palaeo3
Birth of Amazon River
c. 9 - 9.4 MaMega-
wetlands
Transcontinental Stage 2
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Eastern
Amazon
Marine embayments
Solimões
Pebas
Sub-Andean
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Marine
embayment
AcrePebas
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Transcontinental Stage 1
4.5 – 2.6 MaC
16.0 – 11.6 MaA
9.4 – 5.3 MaB
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Albert et al., 2018, Neotr. Ichth.
marine algae
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New frontiers in deep-time
biodiversity research
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Trans-Amazon Drilling Project (TADP)
International collaboration (ICDP-IODP, Leg 387)
2020: Drilling scientific wells to research climate, erosion,
biodiversity in Amazonia from Cretaceous to Present.
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To conclude:
Amazonia’s biodiversity evolved over millions of
years, following geodynamic and climatic changes
We still know little about the details of this process
Will this vulnerable system cope under human
actions?
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Amazonian biodiversity at risk
2018
2019
2017
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2017
2017
Mammal extinction rates (Ceballos, 2015,
Sc.Adv.)
Biodiversity through time (Benton, 2016, PLOS) &
in red the 5 past mass extinction events.
“modern extinction rates for vertebrates varied from
8 to 100 times higher than the background rate”
1800-2000“The recent loss of species is dramatic and serious but does not
yet qualify as a mass extinction in the palaeontological sense of
the Big Five.”
“there are clear indications that losing species now in the ‘critically
endangered’ category would propel the world to a state of mass
extinction that has previously been seen only five times in about
540 million years. Additional losses of species in the ‘endangered’
and ‘vulnerable’ categories could accomplish the sixth mass
extinction in just a few centuries.”
Barnosky et al., 2011 (Nature).
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Relicts of natural history also needs our
protection in the museums
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Reflection
Biodiversity on Land (as we know it), formed
after 5th mass extinction, c. 65 my of evolution
Now: an unprecedented fast decline on a
scale of hundreds of years
This is something to act on to reverse this
trend...
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Thank you!
Muito obrigada!
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Rise of life on Earth c. 0.5 billion years
ago
Diversity through time, marine invertebrates
(Servais et al. 2009, after Sepkoski 1981, 1984; Raup & Sepkoski, 1982)
Diversity through time, land organisms (Katz, 2018, Ann. Bot)
Modern world takes shape
from 65 Ma onwards
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TH = Threatened
CR = Critically endangered
E\MSY = Extinction per million species-years
definition of mass extinction:
Barnosky et al., 2011 (Nature).