Biomineralization in bryozoans: present, past and future

PD Taylor, C Lombardi, S Cocito - Biological Reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Many animal phyla have the physiological ability to produce biomineralized skeletons with
functional roles that have been shaped by natural selection for more than 500 million years …

Growth and calcification of marine bryozoans in a changing ocean

AM Smith - The Biological Bulletin, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Bryozoans are colonial benthic marine invertebrate calcifiers, important and especially
abundant and diverse in southern hemisphere shelf environments. Large heavily calcified …

Temperature as a likely driver shaping global patterns in mineralogical composition in bryozoans: implications for marine calcifiers under global change

B Figuerola, HJ Griffiths, M Krzeminska… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Southern Ocean is showing one of the most rapid responses to human‐induced global
change, thus acting as a sentinel of the effects on marine species and ecosystems. Ocean …

Evolving mineralogy of cheilostome bryozoans

PD Taylor, NP James, Y Bone, P Kuklinski… - …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Cheilostomes dominate bryozoan faunas today and are the only order of bryozoans to have
evolved aragonitic, calcitic, and bimineralic skeletons. New XRD analyses of 177 recent …

Arctic sensitivity? Suitable habitat for benthic taxa is surprisingly robust to climate change

PE Renaud, P Wallhead, J Kotta… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Arctic marine ecosystems are often assumed to be highly vulnerable to ongoing climate
change, and are expected to undergo significant shifts in structure and function. Community …

Mineralogical and chemical composition of Arctic gastropods shells

A Iglikowska, J Przytarska… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Assessment of environmental controls and natural variability of shell chemistry is inevitable
to understand the future of marine calcifiers functioning under the climate change and …

Bryozoan constructions in a changing Mediterranean Sea

C Lombardi, PD Taylor, S Cocito - The Mediterranean Sea: Its history and …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Bryozoans in the Mediterranean Sea are recognized as bioconstructional
framework builders, both primary builders that construct frameworks alone or in combination …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution and mineralogy of carbonate sediments on Antarctic shelves

J Hauck, D Gerdes, CD Hillenbrand, M Hoppema… - Journal of Marine …, 2012 - Elsevier
We analyzed 214 new core-top samples for their CaCO3 content from shelves all around
Antarctica in order to understand their distribution and contribution to the marine carbon …

Size effect on the mineralogy and chemistry of Mytilus trossulus shells from the southern Baltic Sea: implications for environmental monitoring

A Piwoni-Piórewicz, P Kukliński, S Strekopytov… - Environmental …, 2017 - Springer
Mussels have the ability to control biomineral production and chemical composition,
producing shells with a range of functions. In addition to biological control, the environment …

Skeletal mineralogy of marine calcifying organisms shaped by seawater temperature and evolutionary history—A case study of cheilostome bryozoans

A Piwoni‐Piórewicz, LH Liow… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Quantify the contribution of environmental factors (water temperature, salinity and
depth) and evolutionary history to varied skeletal mineralogy in calcifying marine organisms …