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A multi-species coccolith volume response to an anthropogenically-modified ocean

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Major questions surround the species-specific nature of coccolithophore calcification in response to rising atmospheric CO2 levels. Here we present CaCO3 particle volume distribution data from the coccolith size-fraction of a rapidly accumulating North Atlantic sediment core. These data appear to indicate that coccoliths produced by the larger coccolithophore species present at this location increase in mass in parallel with anthropogenic CO2 release. This finding has significant implications for the realistic representation of an assemblage-wide coccolithophore CO2-calcification response in numerical models.
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University of Oxford
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MPLS
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Earth Sciences
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Cardiff University, UK
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Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
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Cardiff University, UK
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Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences
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University of Oxford
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MPLS
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Earth Sciences
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OceanBUG: the Biogeochemistry research group
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Funding agency for:
Halloran, P
Hall, I
Rickaby, R
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NER/S/S/2004/12772
NER/T/S/2002/00980
NER/T/S/2002/00980


Publisher:
Copernicus Publications
Journal:
Biogeosciences Discussions More from this journal
Volume:
5
Issue:
4
Pages:
2923-2930
Publication date:
2008-07-01
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EISSN:
1810-6285
ISSN:
1810-6277


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2009-04-30
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