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Articles | Volume 22, issue 14
Articles | Volume 22, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3463-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3463-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 14
Reviews and syntheses
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18 Jul 2025
Reviews and syntheses |  | 18 Jul 2025

Reviews and syntheses: A trait-based approach to constrain controls on planktic foraminiferal ecology – key trade-offs and current knowledge gaps

Kirsty M. Edgar, Maria Grigoratou, Fanny M. Monteiro, Ruby Barrett, Rui Ying, and Daniela N. Schmidt

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Planktic foraminifera are microscopic marine organisms whose calcium carbonate shells provide valuable insights into past ocean conditions. A promising means of understanding foraminiferal ecology and their environmental interactions is to constrain their key functional traits relating to feeding, symbioses, motility, calcification, and reproduction. Here we review what we know of their functional traits, key gaps in our understanding, and suggestions on how to fill them.
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