Articles | Volume 16, issue 19
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3679-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3679-2019
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30 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 30 Sep 2019

Calcification and latitudinal distribution of extant coccolithophores across the Drake Passage during late austral summer 2016

Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero, Karl-Heinz Baumann, Miguel Ángel Fuertes, Hartmut Schulz, Yann Marcon, Nele Manon Vollmar, José-Abel Flores, and Frank Lamy

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Calcification and distribution of extant coccolithophores across the Drake Passage during late austral summer 2016 Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero and Karl-Heinz Baumann https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.901294

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Open ocean phytoplankton include coccolithophore algae, a key element in carbon cycle regulation with important feedbacks to the climate system. We document latitudinal variability in both coccolithophore assemblage and the mass variation in one particular species, Emiliania huxleyi, for a transect across the Drake Passage (in the Southern Ocean). Coccolithophore abundance, diversity and maximum depth habitat decrease southwards, coinciding with changes in the predominant E. huxleyi morphotypes.
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