Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the planktonic foraminifera as tracers of past
oceanic environments. Paleoceanography has always been closely connected with the …

Around Antartica the annual five-fold growth and decay of sea ice is the most prominent
physical process and has a profound impact on marine life there. In winter the pack ice …

Coral reefs drilled offshore of Barbados provide the first continuous and detailed record of
sea level change during the last deglaciation. The sea level was 121±5 metres below …

The sea ice does not only determine the ecology of ice biota, but it also influences the
pelagic systems under the ice cover and at ice edges. In this paper, new estimates of Arctic …

Polar regions are covered by extensive sea ice that is inhabited by a variety of plants and
animals. The environments where the organisms live vary depending on the structure and …

We present new data on genotypic differences and biogeographic distribution of coiling
types in the living planktonic foraminiferal morphospecies Neogloboquadrina pachyderma …

Planktic foraminifers are marine protozoans with calcareous Shells and chambered tests.
They first appeared in the mid-Jurassic and spread since the mid-Cretaceous over all the …

The abundance and chemistry of the planktonic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina
pachyderma (sinistral coiling) have long been used as tools for monitoring polar surface …

The sea ice surrounding Antarctica provides an extensive habitat for organisms ranging in
size from bacteria to marine birds and mammals. Historically, most of the ecological work on …

Dynamic temporal and spatial changes of physical, chemical and spatial properties of sea
ice pose many challenges to the sympagic community which inhabit a network of brine …