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DOI	10.5194/cp-16-1007-2020
	Can morphological features of coccolithophores serve as a reliable proxy to reconstruct environmental conditions of the past?
	Faucher G.; Riebesell U.; Thomas Bach L.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	18149324
起始页码	1007
结束页码	1025
卷号	16 期号:3
英文摘要	Morphological changes in coccoliths, tiny calcite platelets covering the outer surface of coccolithophores, can be induced by physiological responses to environmental changes. Coccoliths recovered from sedimentary successions may therefore provide information on paleo-environmental conditions prevailing at the time when the coccolithophores were alive. To calibrate the biomineralization responses of ancient coccolithophore to environmental changes, studies often compared the biological responses of living coccolithophore species with paleo-data from calcareous nannofossils. However, there is uncertainty whether the morphological responses of living coccolithophores are representative of those of the fossilized ancestors. To investigate this, we exposed four living coccolithophore species (iEmiliania huxleyi, Gephyrocapsa oceanica/i, iCoccolithus pelagicus/i subsp. ibraarudii/i, and iPleurochrysis carterae)/i that have been evolutionarily distinct for hundreds of thousands to millions of years, to a range of environmental conditions (i.e., changing light intensity, span classCombining double low line"inline-formula"Mgĝˆ•Ca/span ratio, nutrient availability, temperature, and carbonate chemistry) and evaluated their responses in coccolith morphology (i.e., size, length, width, malformation). The motivation for this study was to test if there is a consistent morphological response of the four species to changes in any of the tested abiotic environmental factors. If this was the case, then this could suggest that coccolith morphology can serve as a paleo-proxy for that specific factor because this response is conserved across species that have been evolutionary distinct over geological timescales. However, we found that the four species responded differently to changing light intensity, span classCombining double low line"inline-formula"Mgĝˆ•Ca/span ratio, nutrient availability, and temperature in terms of coccolith morphology. The lack of a common response reveals the difficulties in using coccolith morphology as a paleo-proxy for these environmental drivers. However, a common response was observed under changing seawater carbonate chemistry (i.e., rising span classCombining double low line"inline-formula"CO2/span), which consistently induced malformations. This commonality provides some confidence that malformations found in the sedimentary record could be indicative of adverse carbonate chemistry conditions. © Author(s) 2020.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	abiotic factor; coccolith; environmental change; environmental conditions; evolutionary biology; morphology; nanofossil; paleoclimate; paleoenvironment; reconstruction; Gephyrocapsa; Haptophyceae
来源期刊	Climate of the Past
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/146708
作者单位	Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra Ardito Desio, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, 20133, Italy; Biological Oceanography, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre, Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, 24105, Germany; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Faucher G.,Riebesell U.,Thomas Bach L.. Can morphological features of coccolithophores serve as a reliable proxy to reconstruct environmental conditions of the past?[J],2020,16(3).
APA	Faucher G.,Riebesell U.,&Thomas Bach L..(2020).Can morphological features of coccolithophores serve as a reliable proxy to reconstruct environmental conditions of the past?.Climate of the Past,16(3).
MLA	Faucher G.,et al."Can morphological features of coccolithophores serve as a reliable proxy to reconstruct environmental conditions of the past?".Climate of the Past 16.3(2020).