PaleontologybioRxiv
Palaeontological evidence for community-level decrease in mesopelagic fish size during Pleistocene climate warming in the eastern Mediterranean
K. Agiadi, F. Quillevere, R. Nawrot…·M. Zuschin
The paper uses fossil otoliths to show a 35% decline in median lanternfish size during Pleistocene warming in the eastern Mediterranean, with species showing mixed size trends.
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2022.1994