Tolerance of allogromiid Foraminifera to severely elevated carbon dioxide concentrations: Implications to future ecosystem functioning and paleoceanographic interpretations

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 65, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 107-114

  Bernhard, Joan M ^a   Mollo Christensen, Elizabeth ^a,b   Eisenkolb, Nadine ^a   Starczak, Victoria R ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Allogromia laticollaris; climate change; CO2 injection; deep sea; hypercapnia

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FORAMINIFERA; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PARTIAL PRESSURE; SEAWATER; TOLERANCE;

ALLOGROMIA LATICOLLARIS; ALLOGROMIIDAE; FORAMINIFERA; PROTISTA;

EID: 59049084989     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.10.013     Document Type: Article

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