The colonization of the oceans by calcifying pelagic algae

Suchéras-Marx, Baptiste; Mattioli, Emanuela; Allemand, Pascal; Giraud, Fabienne; Pittet, Bernard; Plancq, Julien; Escarguel, Gilles

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-2501-2019

Articles | Volume 16, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-2501-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-2501-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 12

Research article

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25 Jun 2019

Research article |

| 25 Jun 2019

The colonization of the oceans by calcifying pelagic algae

Baptiste Suchéras-Marx, Emanuela Mattioli, Pascal Allemand, Fabienne Giraud, Bernard Pittet, Julien Plancq, and Gilles Escarguel

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SC1: 'relevant paper also currently in Biogeosciences Discussion forum', Karin Kvale, 15 Feb 2019
RC1: 'Review of Suchéras-Marx et al. manuscript', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 Mar 2019
- AC1: 'Comment to Reviewer 1', Baptiste Suchéras-Marx, 27 May 2019
RC2: 'Review', nina keul, 16 Apr 2019
- AC2: 'Answer to Nina Keul, reviewer 2', Baptiste Suchéras-Marx, 27 May 2019
AC3: 'Manuscript version with reviewers' comments', Baptiste Suchéras-Marx, 27 May 2019
AC4: 'Updated Supplementary material', Baptiste Suchéras-Marx, 27 May 2019

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (30 May 2019) by Jack Middelburg

AR by Baptiste Suchéras-Marx on behalf of the Authors (03 Jun 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (04 Jun 2019) by Jack Middelburg

AR by Baptiste Suchéras-Marx on behalf of the Authors (11 Jun 2019) Manuscript

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Calcareous nannoplankton are photosynthetic plankton producing micrometric calcite platelets having a fossil record covering the past 200 Myr. Based on species richness, platelets size and abundance we observed four evolution phases through time: Jurassic–Early Cretaceous invasion phase of the open ocean, Early Cretaceous–K–Pg extinction specialization phase to the ecological niches, post-K–Pg mass extinction recovery and Eocene–Neogene establishment phase with domination of a few small species.