The global genetic diversity of planktonic foraminifera reveals the structure of cryptic speciation in plankton

R Morard, KF Darling, AKM Weiner… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The nature and extent of diversity in the plankton has fascinated scientists for over a century.
Initially, the discovery of many new species in the remarkably uniform and unstructured …

Late Cenozoic cooling restructured global marine plankton communities

A Woodhouse, A Swain, WF Fagan, AJ Fraass… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The geographic ranges of marine organisms, including planktonic foraminifera, diatoms,
dinoflagellates, copepods and fish, are shifting polewards owing to anthropogenic climate …

The FORCIS database: A global census of planktonic Foraminifera from ocean waters

S Chaabane, T de Garidel-Thoron, X Giraud… - Scientific data, 2023 - nature.com
Planktonic Foraminifera are unique paleo-environmental indicators through their excellent
fossil record in ocean sediments. Their distribution and diversity are affected by different …

Large-scale culturing of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, its growth in, and tolerance of, variable environmental conditions

A WestgÅrd, MM Ezat, TB Chalk… - Journal of Plankton …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The planktic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma is a calcifying marine protist and
the dominant planktic foraminifera species in the polar oceans, making it a key species in …

Thresholds and tipping points are tempting but not necessarily suitable concepts to address anthropogenic biodiversity change—an intervention

H Hillebrand, L Kuczynski, C Kunze, MC Rillo… - Marine Biodiversity, 2023 - Springer
Thresholds and tipping points are frequently used concepts to address the risks of global
change pressures and their mitigation. It is tempting to also consider them to understand …

Tropical paleobiology discovers biodiversity in a warmer past

M Yasuhara, CA Deutsch… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Fig. 1. Past and present equatorial northwestern Atlantic ecosystems, factors that could affect
them, and their latitudinal patterns. Left panel summarizes the concept that biodiversity …

Resequencing of white jute (Corchorus capsularis L.) provides insights into genome diversity, population historical dynamics, and improvement

J Chen, A Li, Q Tang, C Deng, X Zhang, Y Xu… - Industrial Crops and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Jute is an important natural fibre crop which provides most of the global bast fibre production
annually. However, little progress has been made regarding its genomic diversity, historical …

Size normalizing planktonic Foraminifera abundance in the water column

S Chaabane, T de Garidel‐Thoron… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Planktonic Foraminifera have been collected from the water column with different plankton
sampling devices equipped with nets of various mesh sizes, which impedes direct …

ForCenS-LGM: a dataset of planktonic foraminifera species assemblage composition for the Last Glacial Maximum

L Jonkers, A Mix, A Voelker, B Risebrobakken… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Species assemblage composition of marine microfossils offers the possibility to investigate
ecological and climatological change on time scales inaccessible using conventional …

Migrating is not enough for modern planktonic foraminifera in a changing ocean

S Chaabane, T de Garidel-Thoron, J Meilland, O Sulpis… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Rising carbon dioxide emissions are provoking ocean warming and acidification,, altering
plankton habitats and threatening calcifying organisms, such as the planktonic foraminifera …