Rapid diversification underlying the global dominance of a cosmopolitan phytoplankton

EM Bendif, I Probert, OA Archontikis, JR Young… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Marine phytoplankton play important roles in the global ecosystem, with a limited number of
cosmopolitan keystone species driving their biomass. Recent studies have revealed that …

The PhanSST global database of Phanerozoic sea surface temperature proxy data

EJ Judd, JE Tierney, BT Huber, SL Wing, DJ Lunt… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Paleotemperature proxy data form the cornerstone of paleoclimate research and are integral
to understanding the evolution of the Earth system across the Phanerozoic Eon. Here, we …

Variations in the Southern Ocean carbonate production, preservation, and hydrography for the past 41, 500 years: Evidence from coccolith and CaCO3 records

P Choudhari, A Nair, R Mohan, S Patil - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in ocean alkalinity affect atmospheric pCO 2 (ie, higher alkalinity lowers
atmospheric pCO 2). Ocean alkalinity is partly determined by sedimentary burial of …

Glacial Southern Ocean expansion recorded in foraminifera‐bound nitrogen isotopes from the Agulhas Plateau during the mid‐Pleistocene transition

BA Marcks, TP Dos Santos, DVO Lessa… - Paleoceanography …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of 100‐Kyr glacial cycles (The Mid‐Pleistocene Transition [MPT]) is
attributed in part to slower global overturning circulation and iron stimulation of biological …

Calcareous nannofossil records and the migration of the Agulhas Return Current during the last 40 kyr

C Yu, X Su, X Ding, J Zhang, C Tao, S Lv - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The Agulhas Return Current (ARC) transports warm tropical and subtropical waters
eastward into the southern Indian Ocean. It plays a crucial role in the oceanographic …

Late Quaternary deep marine sediment records off southern Africa

HC Cawthra, EW Bergh, EA Wiles… - South African Journal of …, 2021 - journals.co.za
High-resolution map**, sampling and analysis of upper Quaternary southern African
continental margin sediments recovered from beyond the Last Glacial Maximum shoreline (> …

Paleoproductivity proxies and alkenone precursors in the Western Mediterranean during the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition

M Marino, T Rodrigues, O Quivelli, A Girone… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Multidisciplinary analyses (taxonomic analysis of coccolithophore assemblages, stable
oxygen isotopes, marine and terrestrial biomarkers) have been carried out on sediments …

Orbital and suborbital temperature variability in the central Mediterranean across the Pliocene/Pleistocene transition

E Zanola, T Rodrigues, S Bonomo, P Ferretti… - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
A high-resolution record of central Mediterranean Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) based
on the alkenone UK'37 index and planktic δ18O values for the surface-dweller G. ruber has …

Coupled Coccolith-Based Temperature and Productivity High-Resolution Reconstructions in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific During the Last Deglaciation and the …

M Saavedra-Pellitero, I Hernández-Almeida… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We present a new high-resolution reconstruction of annual sea-surface temperatures (SSTa)
and net primary productivity (NPP) using novel coccolithophore-based models developed …

Southern Ocean and southern African monsoon forcing of the subtropical Indian Ocean early Pliocene “Biogenic Bloom”

DN Tangunan, JA Flores, LJ LeVay… - Paleoceanography …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Pliocene epoch emerges as a pivotal juncture in Earth's climatic evolution,
characterized by pronounced warmth and elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide compared …