With the discovery of Ophel, a chemosynthesis-based continental subterranean environment (Por 2007), it becameevident that such environments, previously known only from the sea , are spanning the world as a parallel b...With the discovery of Ophel, a chemosynthesis-based continental subterranean environment (Por 2007), it becameevident that such environments, previously known only from the sea , are spanning the world as a parallel biosphere,the deuterobiosphere. In this preliminary contribution the different known biomes of the deuterobiosphere arereviewed and some general and comparative features are listed.展开更多
The Mediterranean,a sea with an already eventful history,is again undergoing an extreme change.A combination of general warming of the Mediterranean Sea and contact with the Indopacific world through the Suez Canal ha...The Mediterranean,a sea with an already eventful history,is again undergoing an extreme change.A combination of general warming of the Mediterranean Sea and contact with the Indopacific world through the Suez Canal has set the stage for massive changes in the biota that inhabit this sea.For over a century,tropical species of all taxa have been migrating back into the Mediterranean,suggesting a duplication or restoration of a mid-Pliocene Piacenzian or late Miocene Tortonian situation.Test cases are presented in three major taxa.It is not a serial invasion by individual rogue exotic and damaging species,as often wrongly assumed and asserted.Despite its unique biogeographic magnitude being recognized,an opportunity to study the progress of this phenomenon is being missed.This is because of the changed priorities in research,the acute taxonomic impediment and to the geopolitical difficulties in cooperation.Nonetheless,the limitations of the restoration process are defined and a careful future outlook is presented.展开更多
文摘With the discovery of Ophel, a chemosynthesis-based continental subterranean environment (Por 2007), it becameevident that such environments, previously known only from the sea , are spanning the world as a parallel biosphere,the deuterobiosphere. In this preliminary contribution the different known biomes of the deuterobiosphere arereviewed and some general and comparative features are listed.
基金the ISZ Sinternational research program Biological Consequencesof Global Change(BCGC)sponsored by Bureau of Inter-national Cooperation,Chinese Academy of Sciences(GJHZ200810).
文摘The Mediterranean,a sea with an already eventful history,is again undergoing an extreme change.A combination of general warming of the Mediterranean Sea and contact with the Indopacific world through the Suez Canal has set the stage for massive changes in the biota that inhabit this sea.For over a century,tropical species of all taxa have been migrating back into the Mediterranean,suggesting a duplication or restoration of a mid-Pliocene Piacenzian or late Miocene Tortonian situation.Test cases are presented in three major taxa.It is not a serial invasion by individual rogue exotic and damaging species,as often wrongly assumed and asserted.Despite its unique biogeographic magnitude being recognized,an opportunity to study the progress of this phenomenon is being missed.This is because of the changed priorities in research,the acute taxonomic impediment and to the geopolitical difficulties in cooperation.Nonetheless,the limitations of the restoration process are defined and a careful future outlook is presented.
