Ideas and perspectives: Human impacts alter the marine fossil record
Rafał Nawrot,
Martin Zuschin,
Adam Tomašových
et al.
Abstract:Abstract. The youngest fossil record is a crucial source of data documenting the recent history of marine ecosystems and their long-term alteration by humans. However, human activities that reshape communities and habitats also alter sedimentary and biological processes that control the formation of the sedimentary archives recording those impacts. These diverse physical, geochemical, and biological disturbances include changes in sediment fluxes due to the alteration of alluvial and coastal landscapes, seabed… Show more
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