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Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2245-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-2245-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
Research article
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04 May 2017
Research article |  | 04 May 2017

Low planktic foraminiferal diversity and abundance observed in a spring 2013 west–east Mediterranean Sea plankton tow transect

Miguel Mallo, Patrizia Ziveri, P. Graham Mortyn, Ralf Schiebel, and Michael Grelaud

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Single-celled living calcareous planktic foraminifera data across the Mediterranean Sea suggest that stratification of the surface water column, food availability, temperature, and seawater carbonate chemistry are the main factors controlling their distribution and mass. Increasing temperature, salinity, surface ocean stratification, and trophic conditions could be the causes of reduced abundance, diversity and species-specific changes in calcification in planktic foraminifera.
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