While climate change might be too fast for corals to expend, the same might not be true for shorter-lived and faster-established larger benthic foraminifera which may see a significant range expansion.
One more step into the Miocene...

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-53866-w

#ClimateChange #Foraminifera #LBF

#KnowledgeByte: Single-Cell #Foraminifera act as vital #Climate #Proxies, their shell composition revealing past ocean conditions and helping scientists reconstruct historical climate trends, which are crucial for understanding current #ClimateChange.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Foraminifera-and-Climate-Change-67f547a55b2218433551cb24

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

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1091560

#science #ocean #current #climateCatastrophe