Coccolithophore calcification response to past ocean acidification and climate change

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  O'Dea, Sarah A ^a   Gibbs, Samantha J ^a   Bown, Paul R ^b   Young, Jeremy R ^b   Poulton, Alex J ^c   Newsam, Cherry ^a,b   Wilson, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

ACIDIFICATION; BIOMINERALIZATION; CALCIFICATION; CALCITE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COCCOLITH; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOCENE-EOCENE BOUNDARY; TAXONOMY;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COCCOLITH; COCCOLITHUS PELAGICUS; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EOCENE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH RATE; HAPTOPHYTA; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PALEOCENE; SEA; BONE MINERALIZATION; CARBON CYCLE; FOSSIL; METABOLISM; PH; PLANKTON;

COCCOLITHUS PELAGICUS; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSILS; HAPTOPHYTA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANKTON;

EID: 84923331190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6363     Document Type: Article

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