Fossil coccolith morphological attributes as a new proxy for deep ocean carbonate chemistry

A Gerotto, H Zhang, RH Nagai, HM Stoll… - …, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Understanding the variations in past ocean carbonate chemistry is critical to elucidating the
role of the oceans in balancing the global carbon cycle. The fossil shells from marine …

A comparison of methods for estimating coccolith mass

CR Valença, L Beaufort, GM Hallegraeff… - …, 2024 - bg.copernicus.org
The fossil record of coccolithophores dates back approximately 225 million years, and the
production of their calcite platelets (coccoliths) contributes to the global carbon cycle over …

[HTML][HTML] Coccolith dissolution versus productivity changes during the Plio-Pleistocene (3.14–1.80 MA) in the South Atlantic (ODP site 1090)

AM Ballegeer, JA Flores, FJ Sierro… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Calcareous nannofossil assemblages and fragmentation ratios of two coccolithophore
species (Coccolithus pelagicus and Calcidiscus leptoporus) were analysed in samples from …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution of coccoliths in surface sediments across the Drake Passage and calcification of Emiliania huxleyi morphotypes

NM Vollmar, KH Baumann, M Saavedra-Pellitero… - …, 2022 - bg.copernicus.org
Abstract The Southern Ocean is experiencing rapid and profound changes in its physical
and biogeochemical properties that may influence the distribution and composition of …

Coccolithophore paleoproductivity since the Last Glacial Maximum in the Atlantic Ocean: Relationship with calcification and preservation variability

C Argenio, JA Flores, MA Fuertes, B Balestra… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Paleoproductivity, calcification and preservation patterns are presented from calcareous
nannoplankton paleo-assemblages records covering the last∼ 25 kyr retrieved from …

Influence of environmental variability and Emiliania huxleyi ecotypes on alkenone-derived temperature reconstructions in the subantarctic Southern Ocean

AS Rigual-Hernández, FJ Sierro, JA Flores… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Long-chain unsaturated alkenones produced by haptophyte algae are widely used as
paleotemperature indicators. The unsaturation relationship to temperature is linear at mid …

Emiliania huxleyi biometry and calcification response to the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean environmental gradients

SM Patil, R Mohan, SS Shetye, V Vaz, S Gazi… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
An increase in the atmospheric pCO 2 and temperature is expected to reduce ocean CO 3
2− concentration, make oceans warmer and alter ocean circulation patterns. This will also …

Reduction in size of the calcifying phytoplankton Calcidiscus leptoporus to environmental changes between the Holocene and modern Subantarctic Southern Ocean

AS Rigual-Hernández, G Langer, FJ Sierro… - Frontiers in marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Subantarctic Zone of the Southern Ocean plays a disproportionally large role on the
Earth system. Model projections predict rapid environmental change in the coming decades …

Autocatalytic Nucleation and Self‐Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles into Complex Biosimilar Networks

NA Kotov, CN McGlothin, X Xiao, P Bogdan… - Angewandte Chemie … - Wiley Online Library
Self‐replication of molecules and microdroplets have been explored as models in prebiotic
chemistry. An analogous process for inorganic nanomaterials would involve the …

Cascading effects augment the direct impact of CO2 on phytoplankton growth in a biogeochemical model

M Seifert, C Nissen, B Rost, J Hauck - Elem Sci Anth, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
Atmospheric and oceanic CO2 concentrations are rising at an unprecedented rate.
Laboratory studies indicate a positive effect of rising CO2 on phytoplankton growth until an …