Out on the shallow #sea, there are #foraminifera living on seaweed, we call them epiphytes. You'd think that these forams would each have a favorite #algae, but not. If any, the two groups seem to share more common responses to external forcing than on each other.
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141113626001455
Elevated temperatures do all sorts of weird things to organisms, usually bad things. #Foraminifera for example, sometimes shrink in size. The interesting bit is, when they do that, their shell becomes tougher.
#climatechange #adaptation #sea
Link: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.231280
17-Jul-2025
Tracking #AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation using benthic #foraminifera
New study: More #oxygen in the oxygen-minimum zone associated with weaker #Atlantic overturning circulation
How is ventilation at various depth layers of the Atlantic connected and what role do changes in ocean circulation play? Researchers from Bremen, Kiel and Edinburgh have pursued this question and their study has been published in the professional journal Nature Communications.
New study: More oxygen in the oxygen-minimum zone associated with weaker Atlantic overturning circulation - now in Nature Communications.
Find out more here ➡️ https://www.marum.de/en/Oxygen-AMOC.html
Today I found this planktonic foraminifera in a Turonian slab. It was sheared off by glaciers somewhere, transported and eventually dumped north of Berlin. Is it Archaeoglobigerina cretacea ? Maybe a professional can tell. // See more at https://foraminifera.eu/collection.php?collname=Ralf-Rainer+Schulz&aktion=suche
#foraminifera #microfossils #fossils #paleontology #micropaleontology #Cretaceous #microscope