Biological Response of Planktic Foraminifera to Decline in Seawater pH.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the way in which a decline in ocean pH can affect calcareous organisms could enhance our ability to predict the impacts of the potential decline in seawater pH on marine ecosystems, and could help to reconstruct the paleoceanographic events over a geological time scale. Planktic foraminifera are among the most important biological proxies for these studies; however, the existing research on planktic foraminifera is almost exclusively based on their geochemical indices, without the inclusion of information on their biological development. Through a series of on-board experiments in the western tropical Pacific (134°33'54″ E, 12°32'47″ N), the present study showed that the symbiont-bearing calcifier Trilobatus sacculifer-a planktic foraminifer-responded rapidly to a decline in

SUBMITTER: Dong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8773009 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature