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Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1007-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1007-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
Research article
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09 Jun 2020
Research article |  | 09 Jun 2020

Can morphological features of coccolithophores serve as a reliable proxy to reconstruct environmental conditions of the past?

Giulia Faucher, Ulf Riebesell, and Lennart Thomas Bach

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We designed five experiments choosing different coccolithophore species that have been evolutionarily distinct for millions of years. If all species showed the same morphological response to an environmental driver, this could be indicative of a response pattern that is conserved over geological timescales. We found an increase in the percentage of malformed coccoliths under altered CO2, providing evidence that this response could be used as paleo-proxy for episodes of acute CO2 perturbations.
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