The Mediterranean region and the Levant have returned some of the clearest evidence of a
climatically dry period occurring around 4200 years ago. However, some regional evidence …

We present an overview of the plankton studies conducted during the last 25 years in the
epipelagic offshore waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This quasi-enclosed sea is …

Greenhouse episodes during the Valanginian and Aptian correlate with major perturbations
in the C cycle and in marine ecosystems, carbonate crises, and widespread deposition of …

In this study we utilize two organic geochemical proxies, the U37k′ index and TEX86, to
examine past sea surface temperatures (SST) from a site located near the Nile River Delta in …

Ocean acidification (OA) is a serious consequence of climate change with complex
organism-to-ecosystem effects that have been observed through field observations but are …

In this chapter we present a revision of the biogeographical distribution of five
coccolithophorid species (Coccolithus pelagicus, Calcidiscus leptoporus, Heli-cosphaera …

Water column stratification increased at climatic transitions from cold to warm periods during
the late Quaternary and led to anoxic conditions and sapropel formation in the deep eastern …

In this account we present estimates of nannofossil fluxes in four sections and one borehole
all belonging to the Early Jurassic western Tethys. This study aims to map the distribution of …

In order to assess the significance of calcifying organisms for the carbonate budget it is
necessary to have reliable estimates of the relative proportion of carbonate production of the …

Calcareous nannofossils were important producers of pelagic carbonates in Mesozoic
oceans. In order to better understand the origin of Mesozoic pelagic carbonates we studied …