Global diversity patterns of larger benthic foraminifera under future climate change

EM Förderer, D Rödder, MR Langer - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming threatens the viability of tropical coral reefs and associated marine
calcifiers, including symbiont‐bearing larger benthic foraminifera (LBF). The impacts of …

Response of large benthic foraminifera to climate and local changes: Implications for future carbonate production

GR Narayan, CE Reymond, M Stuhr, S Doo… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Large benthic foraminifera are major carbonate components in tropical carbonate platforms,
important carbonate producers, stratigraphic tools and powerful bioindicators (proxies) of …

Are physiological responses in foraminifera reliable environmental stress bioindicators? A systematic review

LT Martínez, M Marchant, M Urbina - Environmental Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Foraminifera are considered good bioindicators of environmental stress based on
morphological abnormalities, but physiological responses occur far earlier and have not …

Long-term physiological responses to combined ocean acidification and warming show energetic trade-offs in an asterinid starfish

M Khalil, SS Doo, M Stuhr, H Westphal - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
While organismal responses to climate change and ocean acidification are increasingly
documented, longer-term (> a few weeks) experiments with marine organisms are still …

Proteomic characterization of a foraminiferal test's organic matrix

F Prada, L Haramaty, O Livnah, R Shaul… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Foraminifera are unicellular protists capable of precipitating calcite tests, which fossilize and
preserve geochemical signatures of past environmental conditions dating back to the …

Nanoplastic incorporation into an organismal skeleton

M Joppien, H Westphal, V Chandra, M Stuhr… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Studies on the effects of global marine plastic pollution have largely focused on
physiological responses of few organism groups (eg, corals, fishes). Here, we report the first …

Stable Adult Growth but Reduced Asexual Fecundity in Marginopora vertebralis, under Global Climate Change Scenarios

CE Reymond, F Patel, S Uthicke - Journal of Earth Science, 2022 - Springer
Large benthic foraminifera are an integral component of shallow-water tropical habitats and
like many marine calcifiers, are susceptible to ocean acidification (OA) and ocean warming …

Contributions of trimorphic life cycles to dispersal and evolutionary trends in large benthic foraminifers

P Hallock, CE Reymond - Journal of Earth Science, 2022 - Springer
The basic life cycle of Foraminifera has long been recognized as alternation between sexual
and asexual generations; a common modification is several successive asexual …

Local persistence of large benthic foraminifera (LBF) under increasing urban development: A case study from Zanzibar (Unguja), East Africa

GR Narayan, N Herrán, CE Reymond… - Journal of Earth …, 2022 - Springer
Coastal marine management is vital for socio-ecological sustainability of developing,
tropical ecosystems, which calls for diverse tools to monitor and assess water quality. The …

Impact of dissolved CO2 on calcification in two large, benthic foraminiferal species

LK Dämmer, A Ivkić, L de Nooijer, W Renema… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Rising atmospheric CO2 shifts the marine inorganic carbonate system and decreases
seawater pH, a process often abbreviated to 'ocean acidification'. Since acidification …