Predicting responses to marine heatwaves using functional traits

BP Harvey, KE Marshall, CDG Harley… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs), discrete but prolonged periods of anomalously warm seawater,
can fundamentally restructure marine communities and ecosystems. Although our …

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 …

Invasion success of a Lessepsian symbiont-bearing foraminifera linked to high dispersal ability, preadaptation and suppression of sexual reproduction

D S. Raposo, R A. Zufall, A Caruso, D Titelboim… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Among the most successful Lessepsian invaders is the symbiont-bearing benthic
foraminifera Amphistegina lobifera. In its newly conquered habitat, this prolific calcifier and …

Palaeocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories: A meta‐analysis of the successions of South‐western and Western Central Asia

G Coletti, L Commissario, L Mariani… - The Depositional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
One hundred and forty‐four published successions of shallow‐water carbonates, deposited
between the Palaeocene and the Miocene, from the Levant to the Himalayas, have been re …

High dispersal capacity and biogeographic breaks shape the genetic diversity of a globally distributed reef‐dwelling calcifier

M Prazeres, R Morard, TE Roberts, SS Doo… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the role of dispersal and adaptation in the evolutionary history of marine
species is essential for predicting their response to changing conditions. We analyzed …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring of heavy metals in seawater using single chamber foraminiferal sclerochronology

D Titelboim, A Sadekov, M Blumenfeld… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The establishment of sustainable coastal industries requires better temporal and spatial
monitoring of heavy metal (HM) pollutants, even at low concentrations and during pulse …

Reconstructing bioinvasion dynamics through micropaleontologic analysis highlights the role of temperature change as a driver of alien foraminifera invasion

R Guastella, A Marchini, A Caruso, J Evans… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Invasive alien species threaten biodiversity and ecosystem structure and functioning, but
incomplete assessments of their origins and temporal trends impair our ability to understand …

Why Amphistegina lobifera, a tropical benthic foraminiferal species, is thriving at temperate latitudes in the Mediterranean Sea

P Hallock, O Koukousioura… - Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Amphistegina lobifera Larsen is a relatively large (adult diameter∼ 1–3 mm), robust, diatom-
symbiont-bearing benthic foraminiferal species that thrives in clear, nutrient-poor coastal …

BFR2: a curated ribosomal reference dataset for benthic foraminifera

M Holzmann, NL Nguyen, IB Angeles, J Pawlowski - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Benthic foraminifera are one of the major groups of marine protists that also occur in
freshwater and terrestrial habitats. They are widely used to monitor current and past …

[HTML][HTML] Shallow-water carbonate facies herald the onset of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Hazara basin, Northern Pakistan)

M Ali, G Coletti, L Mariani, A Benedetti… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate the Palaeocene succession of the Hazara Basin (Northern Pakistan) to better
understand the impact of climate change on marine carbonate-producing organisms. These …