Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-573-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-573-2017
Research article
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06 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 06 Jun 2017

Quantifying the effect of seasonal and vertical habitat tracking on planktonic foraminifera proxies

Lukas Jonkers and Michal Kučera

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Planktonic foraminifera – the most important proxy carriers in palaeoceanography – adjust their seasonal and vertical habitat. They are thought to do so in a way that minimises the change in their environment, implying that proxy records based on these organisms may not capture the full amplitude of past climate change. Here we demonstrate that they indeed track a particular thermal habitat and suggest that this could lead to a 40 % underestimation of reconstructed temperature change.