Species-specific growth response of coccolithophores to Palaeocene-Eocene environmental change

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 218-222

  Gibbs, Samantha J ^a   Poulton, Alex J ^b   Bown, Paul R ^c   Daniels, Chris J ^a   Hopkins, Jason ^a   Young, Jeremy R ^c   Jones, Heather L ^a   Thiemann, Geoff J ^a   O'dea, Sarah A ^a   Newsam, Cherry ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACIDIFICATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; COCCOLITH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; GROWTH RESPONSE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; PHYTOPLANKTON; TAXONOMY;

COCCOLITHUS PELAGICUS; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE; TOWEIUS;

EID: 84874590437     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1719     Document Type: Article

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