Biogeography and ecostratigraphy of Late Quaternary planktonic foraminiferal taphocoenoses in the Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles, NE Caribbean Sea

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• 作者：Brent Wilson ^{brent.wilson@sta.uwi.edu}
• 关键词：foraminifera ; biogeography ; ecostratigraphy ; SHE analysis ; alpha diversity ; beta diversity ; complementarity ; Anegada Passage ; Orinoco Plume
• 刊名：Marine Micropaleontology
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：58_03778398
• 类别：ear
• 出版时间：April, 2012
• 卷：86-87
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-10
• 文件大小：1094 K

摘要

The Leeward Islands lie within an oceanographically complex area influenced by North Atlantic Gyre flow and the Orinoco plume. Late Quaternary planktonic foraminiferal assemblages are reported from three middle bathyal piston cores (from NW to SE: En20-2, En20-10, En20-16) in the Leeward Islands. En20-2 was obtained closest to the 200 m bathymetric contour, En20-10 farthest offshore. The bathyal benthonic foraminifera from En20-2 are indicative of high surface productivity. The planktonic foraminiferal assemblages differ between the cores. The 鈥?em>Globigerinoides ruber group鈥?(= white and pink G. ruber + G. cyclostomus) typically increases shoreward, but in this study it was most abundant in En20-10. West of the study area (i.e., around Puerto Rico), white-walled specimens form ~ 66%of the 鈥?em>G. ruber group鈥? but in the Leeward Islands the percentages are higher (mean 81.7%of total 鈥?em>G. ruber group鈥?. Globigerinita glutinata and Globoturborotalia rubescens (pink) were at their most abundant in the SE core En20-16, while G. rubescens (white) was at its most abundant in the NW core En20-2. Comparison with benthonic foraminiferal distributions suggests that the following planktonic species have potential as indicators of surface productivity, Globigerinella aequilateralis, G. glutinata and Globorotalia inflata being indicative of enhanced surface productivity and Globigerinoides immaturus, G. trilobus var. and Globorotalia tumida of low surface productivity. Bottom-up SHE Analysis for Biozone Identification (SHEBI) indicates that each core contains several abundance biozones (ABs), but these do not correlate between the cores. Alpha diversities were S_E = 8.3-14.3 effective species, while beta diversities ranged from 0.65 to 1.54, but only two were statistically significant. Complementarities (64.7-87.6%) indicate that the AB boundaries reflect changes in the relative abundances of species, not overall diversity.