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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1505-2023
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1505-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Calcification response of planktic foraminifera to environmental change in the western Mediterranean Sea during the industrial era
Thibauld M. Béjard
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Geología,
Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Andrés S. Rigual-Hernández
Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Geología,
Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
José A. Flores
Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Geología,
Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Javier P. Tarruella
Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Geología,
Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Xavier Durrieu de Madron
CEFREM, CNRS-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
Isabel Cacho
GRC Geociències Marines, Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i
de l'Oceà, Facultat de Ciències de la Terra, Universitat de
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Neghar Haghipour
Earth Sciences Department, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Aidan Hunter
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council,
Cambridge, UK
Francisco J. Sierro
Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Geología,
Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
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11 citations as recorded by crossref.
- Orbital timescale CaCO3 burial and dissolution changes off the Chilean margin in the subantarctic Pacific over the past 140 kyr T. Kasuya et al.
- Reduction in size of the calcifying phytoplankton Calcidiscus leptoporus to environmental changes between the Holocene and modern Subantarctic Southern Ocean A. Rigual-Hernández et al.
- Modelling Mediterranean ocean biogeochemistry of the Last Glacial Maximum K. Six et al.
- Charting the test carbonate content of common late Maastrichtian planktic foraminifera morphotypes K. Kesen et al.
- Orbital-scale variability in the contribution of foraminifera and coccolithophores to pelagic carbonate production P. Cornuault et al.
- Planktonic foraminifera assemblage composition and flux dynamics inferred from an annual sediment trap record in the central Mediterranean Sea T. Béjard et al.
- Uncertain fate of pelagic calcifying protists: a cellular perspective on a changing ocean A. Shemi et al.
- Tropicalization and biodiversity restructuring of calcifying plankton in a rapidly warming Mediterranean Sea A. Lucas et al.
- Anthropogenic acidification of surface waters drives decreased biogenic calcification in the Mediterranean Sea S. Pallacks et al.
- Ideas and perspectives: Human impacts alter the marine fossil record R. Nawrot et al.
- What controls planktic foraminiferal calcification? R. Barrett et al.
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Short summary
The Mediterranean Sea is undergoing a rapid and unprecedented environmental change. Planktic foraminifera calcification is affected on different timescales. On seasonal and interannual scales, calcification trends differ according to the species and are linked mainly to sea surface temperatures and carbonate system parameters, while comparison with pre/post-industrial assemblages shows that all three species have reduced their calcification between 10 % to 35 % according to the species.
The Mediterranean Sea is undergoing a rapid and unprecedented environmental change. Planktic...
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