Fig. 7

Comparison of the abundance of G. oceanica and SST for the last 700 years. Top: Records of %G. oceanica. Bottom: SST (UK37 from Zhao et al. (2000)). Both records are from the same position in the Santa Barbara Basin. Colored lines represent the LOESS smoothing function for the two series. Vertical bands are long-term increases of temperature detected by the two proxies