Biochemical adaptation to ocean acidification

JH Stillman, AW Paganini - The Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
The change in oceanic carbonate chemistry due to increased atmospheric P CO2 has
caused pH to decline in marine surface waters, a phenomenon known as ocean acidification …

Two massive, rapid releases of carbon during the onset of the Palaeocene–Eocene thermal maximum

GJ Bowen, BJ Maibauer, MJ Kraus, U Röhl… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The Earth's climate abruptly warmed by 5–8° C during the Palaeocene–Eocene thermal
maximum (PETM), about 55.5 million years ago,. This warming was associated with a …

Macroevolutionary history of the planktic foraminifera

AJ Fraass, DC Kelly, SE Peters - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Planktic foraminifera are an abundant component of deep-sea sediment and are critical to
geohistorical research, primarily because as a biological and geochemical system they are …

Forecasted coral reef decline in marine biodiversity hotspots under climate change

P Descombes, MS Wisz, F Leprieur… - Global Change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Coral bleaching events threaten coral reef habitats globally and cause severe declines of
local biodiversity and productivity. Related to high sea surface temperatures (SST) …

Frequency, magnitude and character of hyperthermal events at the onset of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum

V Lauretano, K Littler, M Polling, JC Zachos… - Climate of the …, 2015 - cp.copernicus.org
Recent studies have shown that the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO) was preceded
by a series of short-lived global warming events, known as hyperthermals. Here we present …

Understanding ocean acidification impacts on organismal to ecological scales

AJ Andersson, DI Kline, PJ Edmunds, SD Archer… - Oceanography, 2015 - JSTOR
Ocean acidification (OA) research seeks to understand how marine ecosystems and global
elemental cycles will respond to changes in seawater carbonate chemistry in combination …

Contact metamorphism and thermogenic gas generation in the Vøring and Møre basins, offshore Norway, during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum

I Aarnes, S Planke, M Trulsvik… - Journal of the …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Voluminous volcanic intrusive activity took place in the Vøring and Møre basins at the
Paleocene–Eocene boundary at about 56 Ma. This event caused thermal maturation of …

Alluvial response to the Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum climatic event, polecat bench, Wyoming (USA)

MJ Kraus, DT Woody, JJ Smith, V Dukic - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
The stratigraphic interval spanning the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum in the
northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming shows changes in the alluvial record that can be tied to a …

Analysis of bubble plume distributions to evaluate methane hydrate decomposition on the continental slope

HP Johnson, UK Miller, MS Salmi… - Geochemistry …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cascadia margin sediments contain a rich reservoir of carbon derived both from terrestrial
input and sea surface productivity. A portion of this carbon exists as solid gas hydrate within …

Experimental evidence for kinetic effects on B/Ca in synthetic calcite: implications for potential B (OH) 4− and B (OH) 3 incorporation

J Uchikawa, DE Penman, JC Zachos… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
The boron to calcium ratio (B/Ca) in biogenic CaCO 3 is being increasingly utilized as a
proxy for past ocean carbonate chemistry. However, B/Ca of cultured and core-top …