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A Clustering Optimization Strategy for Molecular Taxonomy Applied to Planktonic Foraminifera SSU rDNA

scientific article (publication date: 9 September 2010)

A comparison of PMIP2 model simulations and the MARGO proxy reconstruction for tropical sea surface temperatures at last glacial maximum

article

A resolution for the coiling direction paradox inNeogloboquadrina pachyderma

A revised taxonomic and phylogenetic concept for the planktonic foraminifer species Globigerinoides ruber based on molecular and morphometric evidence

Advances in planktonic foraminifer research: New perspectives for paleoceanography ⬇️

An extinction event in planktonic Foraminifera preceded by stabilizing selection

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Anaerobic metabolism of Foraminifera thriving below the seafloor

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Ancient origin of the modern deep-sea fauna

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Antarctic temperature and global sea level closely coupled over the past five glacial cycles

article

Asynchronous instability of the North American-Arctic and Greenland ice sheets during the last deglaciation

scholarly article by Rebecca Jackson et al published May 2017 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Atmospheric carbon dioxide variations across the middle Miocene climate transition

scientific article published on 26 March 2021

Author Correction: Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

article

Benthic foraminifer record of environmental changes in the Yellow Sea (Hwanghae) during the last 15,000 years

article by Jung-Moo Kim & Michal Kucera published July 2000 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Biochronology and evolutionary implications of Late Neogene California margin planktonic foraminiferal events

Biochronology of the mid-Pliocene Sphaeroidinella event

Biogeography and evolution of body size in marine plankton

scientific article published in October 2006

Boron isotope-based seasonal paleo-pH reconstruction for the Southeast Atlantic – A multispecies approach using habitat preference of planktonic foraminifera

Calcareous plankton response to orbital and millennial-scale climate changes across the Middle Pleistocene in the western Mediterranean

scientific article published in 2013

Calcification depths of planktonic foraminifera from the southwestern Atlantic derived from oxygen isotope analyses of sediment trap material

Calibration of the boron isotope proxy in the planktonic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber for use in palaeo-CO2 reconstruction

scholarly article by Michael Henehan et al published February 2013 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Centennial-scale evolution of Dansgaard-Oeschger events in the northeast Atlantic Ocean between 39.5 and 56.5 ka B.P

article

Centennial-to-millennial-scale periodicities of Holocene climate and sediment injections off the western Barents shelf, 75°N

Chapter Six Planktonic Foraminifera as Tracers of Past Oceanic Environments

Characterizing photosymbiosis in modern planktonic foraminifera

Characterizing photosymbiosis in modern planktonic foraminifera

scientific article published in 2019

Climate change decouples oceanic primary and export productivity and organic carbon burial

scientific article

Climate model evaluation based on ecological principles: using fossil plankton biodiversity patterns to probe simulated thermal gradients in the ice age North Atlantic

Coccolithophore productivity at the western Iberian Margin during the Middle Pleistocene (310–455 ka) – evidence from coccolith Sr∕Ca data

scientific article published in 2020

Coherent response of zoo‐ and phytoplankton assemblages to global warming since the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article published on 6 April 2024

Collection of X-ray micro computed tomography images of shells of planktic foraminifera with curated taxonomy

scientific article published on 5 October 2023

Combined effects of warming and ocean acidification on coral reef Foraminifera Marginopora vertebralis and Heterostegina depressa

article

Comparing proxies for the reconstruction of LGM sea-surface conditions in the northern North Atlantic

scholarly article

Comparison between Holocene and Marine Isotope Stage-11 sea-level histories

article

Comparison of Ba/Ca and δOWATER18 as freshwater proxies: A multi-species core-top study on planktonic foraminifera from the vicinity of the Orinoco River mouth

scholarly article

Comparison of statistical and artificial neural network techniques for estimating past sea surface temperatures from planktonic foraminifer census data

article

Competition between cryptic species explains variations in rates of lineage evolution

scientific article (publication date: 26 August 2008)

Constraints on surface seawater oxygen isotope change between the Last Glacial Maximum and the Late Holocene

scholarly article

Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

Convergent evolution of spherical shells in Miocene planktonic foraminifera documents the parallel emergence of a complex character in response to environmental forcing

scientific article published in 2023

Coupling of equatorial Atlantic surface stratification to glacial shifts in the tropical rainbelt

scientific article

Cryptic species of planktonic foraminifera: their effect on palaeoceanographic reconstructions

scientific article

Decadal resolution record of Oman margin upwelling indicates persistent solar forcing of the Indian summer monsoon after the early Holocene summer insolation maximum

article

Decadal resolution record of Oman upwelling indicates solar forcing of the Indian summer monsoon (9–6 ka)

article

Decadal trend of plankton community change and habitat shoaling in the Arctic gateway recorded by planktonic foraminifera

scientific article published on 16 December 2021

Decadal-resolution record of winter monsoon intensity over the last two millennia from planktic foraminiferal assemblages in the northeastern Arabian Sea

article

Depth habitat of the planktonic foraminifera Neogloboquadrina pachyderma in the northern high latitudes explained by sea-ice and chlorophyll concentrations

scholarly article

Determinants of Planktonic Foraminifera Calcite Flux: Implications for the Prediction of Intra‐ and Inter‐Annual Pelagic Carbonate Budgets

scientific article published in 2021

Determination of Past Sea Surface Temperatures

Disentangling environmental drivers of subarctic dinocyst assemblage compositional change during the Holocene

scientific article published on 26 October 2023

Disentangling thermal stress responses in a reef-calcifier and its photosymbionts by shotgun proteomics.

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Disruptive selection and bet-hedging in planktonic Foraminifera: shell morphology as predictor of extinctions

scientific article published in 2014

Distribution of Crenarchaeota tetraether membrane lipids in surface sediments from the Red Sea

article by Gabriele Trommer et al published June 2009 in Organic Geochemistry

Distribution of planktonic foraminifera in the subtropical South Atlantic: depth hierarchy of controlling factors

scientific article published in 2020

Diverse Internal Symbiont Community in the Endosymbiotic Foraminifera : Implications for Symbiont Shuffling Under Thermal Stress

scientific article published in 2018

Diversity and microhabitats of living benthic foraminifera in the abyssal Northeast Pacific

Diversity of rDNA in Chilostomella: Molecular differentiation patterns and putative hermit types

Early and middle Holocene in the Aegean Sea: interplay between high and low latitude climate variability

scholarly article

Ecological modeling of the temperature dependence of cryptic species of planktonic Foraminifera in the Southern Hemisphere

scientific article published in 2013

Environmental determinants of radiolarian assemblages in the western Pacific since the last deglaciation

Environmental parameters affecting composition of modern Mediterranean planktonic foraminifera assemblages

Estimating glacial western Pacific sea-surface temperature: methodological overview and data compilation of surface sediment planktic foraminifer faunas

article

Evolution within the charophyte genus Harrisichara , late Paleogene, southern England; environmental and biostratigraphic implications

article

Evolutionary Changes in Supplementary Apertural Characteristics of the Late Neogene Sphaeroidinella dehiscens Lineage (Planktonic Foraminifera)

scientific article published in 1996

Extinctions in the marine plankton preceded by stabilizing selection

Extremely heat tolerant photo-symbiosis in a shallow marine benthic foraminifera

scientific article

Factors controlling the depth habitat of planktonic foraminifera in the subtropical eastern North Atlantic

scientific article published in 2017

Factors controlling the depth habitat of planktonic foraminifera in the subtropical eastern North Atlantic

Factors controlling the distribution of planktonic foraminifera in the Red Sea and implications for the development of transfer functions

article

ForCenS, a curated database of planktonic foraminifera census counts in marine surface sediment samples

scientific article

Foraminiferal dissolution at shallow depths of the Walvis Ridge and Rio Grande Rise during the latest Cretaceous: Inferences for deep-water circulation in the South Atlantic

article by Michal Kucera et al published April 1997 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Foraminiferal single chamber analyses of heavy metals as a tool for monitoring permanent and short term anthropogenic footprints.

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Fossil and genetic evidence for the polyphyletic nature of the planktonic foraminifera "Globigerinoides", and description of the new genus Trilobatus

scientific article

Genetic and morphological divergence in the warm-water planktonic foraminifera genus Globigerinoides

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Genetic and morphometric evidence for parallel evolution of the Globigerinella calida morphotype

article

Geochemical signatures of benthic foraminiferal shells from a heat-polluted shallow marine environment provide field evidence for growth and calcification under extreme warmth.

scientific article

Geographical distribution of cryptic genetic types in the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides ruber

scientific article published on 17 March 2009

Glacial Mediterranean sea surface temperatures based on planktonic foraminiferal assemblages

scholarly article

Global change drives modern plankton communities away from the pre-industrial state

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Global molecular phylogeography reveals persistent Arctic circumpolar isolation in a marine planktonic protist

scientific article (publication date: 20 March 2007)

Habitats, abundance patterns and isotopic signals of morphotypes of the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides ruber (d'Orbigny) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea since the Marine Isotopic Stage 12

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

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

High rates of sea-level rise during the last interglacial period

scientific article

Implication of methodological uncertainties for mid-Holocene sea surface temperature reconstructions

article

Insolation forcing of coccolithophore productivity in the western tropical Indian Ocean over the last two glacial-interglacial cycles

Integrating palaeoclimate time series with rich metadata for uncertainty modelling: strategy and documentation of the PalMod 130k marine palaeoclimate data synthesis

scientific article published in 2020

Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminifera cannot be consistently predicted by the environment

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Introduction

Latitudinal variation in the planktic foraminifer Contusotruncana contusa in the terminal Cretaceous ocean

Logratio transformation of compositional data

article

Maastrichtian foraminiferal and paleoceanographic changes on Milankovitch timescales

Methodology for Single-Cell Genetic Analysis of Planktonic Foraminifera for Studies of Protist Diversity and Evolution

Mg/Ca in the planktonic foraminifera Globorotalia inflata and Globigerinoides bulloides from Western Mediterranean plankton tow and core top samples

Mid Holocene origin of the sea-surface salinity low in the subarctic North Pacific

scholarly article

Millennial-scale variability in Red Sea circulation in response to Holocene insolation forcing

article

Mismatch between the depth habitat of planktonic foraminifera and the calibration depth of SST transfer functions may bias reconstructions

article

Modeling seasonal and vertical habitats of planktonic foraminifera on a global scale

scientific article published in 2018

Modeling seasonal and vertical habitats of planktonic foraminifera on a global scale

Modeling the distribution and seasonality ofNeogloboquadrina pachydermain the North Atlantic Ocean during Heinrich Stadial 1

Molecular evidence links cryptic diversification in polar planktonic protists to Quaternary climate dynamics

scientific article (publication date: 18 May 2004)

Multiproxy approach for the reconstruction of the glacial ocean surface (MARGO)

scholarly article

Nanoprobe crystallographic orientation studies of isolated shield elements of the coccolithophore species Emiliania huxleyi

Nature and origin of variations in pelagic carbonate production in the tropical ocean since the mid-Miocene (ODP Site 927)

scientific article published in 2023

New constraints on the timing of sea level fluctuations during early to middle marine isotope stage 3

New species of the genus <i>Parkiella</i> (Foraminifera) from the Late Cretaceous Central Pacific Ocean: biostratigraphy, biogeography, and the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary

scholarly article by Joen G. V. Widmark & Michal Kucera published 1 April 1998 in Journal of Micropalaeontology

No-analog planktonic foraminiferal faunas in the glacial southern South China Sea: Implications for the magnitude of glacial cooling in the western Pacific warm pool

article

Nomenclature for the Nameless: A Proposal for an Integrative Molecular Taxonomy of Cryptic Diversity Exemplified by Planktonic Foraminifera.

scientific article

Ocean circulation, ice sheet growth and interhemispheric coupling of millennial climate variability during the mid-Pleistocene (ca 800–400ka)

scholarly article

On the mismatch in the strength of competition among fossil and modern species of planktonic Foraminifera

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

PFR²: a curated database of planktonic foraminifera 18S ribosomal DNA as a resource for studies of plankton ecology, biogeography and evolution.

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond ⬇️

article

Palaeoecological preferences and geographical distribution of Late Maastrichtian deep-sea ostracods in the South Atlantic

scientific article published in 2007

Paleotemperature and paleosalinity inferences and chemostratigraphy across the Aptian/Albian boundary in the subtropical North Atlantic

Past and future decline of tropical pelagic biodiversity

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Phylogeography of the tropical planktonic foraminifera lineage globigerinella reveals isolation inconsistent with passive dispersal by ocean currents

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Plankton response to global warming is characterized by non-uniform shifts in assemblage composition since the last ice age

scientific article published in 2022

Plankton-derived environmental DNA extracted from abyssal sediments preserves patterns of plankton macroecology

Planktonic foraminifera eDNA signature deposited on the seafloor remains preserved after burial in marine sediments

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Planktonic foraminifera shell fluxes from a weekly resolved sediment trap record in the southwestern Atlantic: Evidence for synchronized reproduction

article

Planktonic foraminifera-derived environmental DNA extracted from abyssal sediments preserves patterns of plankton macroecology

scientific article published in 2017

Population dynamics and reproduction strategies of planktonic foraminifera in the open ocean

scientific article published in 2021

Precession forcing of productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific during the last glacial cycle

scholarly article

Precise measurement of Li isotopes in planktonic foraminiferal tests by quadrupole ICPMS

scholarly article

Predictability of intraspecific size variation in extant planktonic foraminifera

Predicting the global distribution of planktonic foraminifera using a dynamic ecosystem model

scientific article published in 2008

Preface: Advances in paleoclimate data synthesis and analysis of associated uncertainty: towards data–model integration to understand the climate

scientific article published in 2021

Putative sponge biomarkers in unicellular Rhizaria question an early rise of animals

scientific article published on 4 March 2019

Quantification of past environmental and biological processes by analysis of physical properties of fossils and fossil assemblages

scientific article

Quantifying the effect of seasonal and vertical habitat tracking on planktonic foraminifera proxies

Quantifying the effect of seasonal and vertical habitat tracking on planktonic foraminifera proxies

Recent Invasion of the Symbiont-Bearing Foraminifera Pararotalia into the Eastern Mediterranean Facilitated by the Ongoing Warming Trend ⬇️

scientific article

Reconstruction of sea-surface temperatures from assemblages of planktonic foraminifera: multi-technique approach based on geographically constrained calibration data sets and its application to glacial Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

article by Michal Kucera et al published April 2005 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Reef calcifiers are adapted to episodic heat stress but vulnerable to sustained warming.

scientific article

Regional synthesis of Mediterranean atmospheric circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum.

scientific article published on 31 July 2008

Renewal of planktonic foraminifera diversity after the Cretaceous Paleogene mass extinction by benthic colonizers

scientific article published in 2022

Reply to Fordham and Welter-Schultes's comment on “Taxonomic review of living planktonic foraminifera” by Brummer and Kučera (2022)

scientific article published in 2023

Reply to: Sources of C30 steroid biomarkers in Neoproterozoic-Cambrian rocks and oils

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Reproducibility of species recognition in modern planktonic foraminifera and its implications for analyses of community structure

Retention of high thermal tolerance in the invasive foraminifera Amphistegina lobifera from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf of Aqaba

scientific article published in 2016

Scale dependence of temporal biodiversity change in modern and fossil marine plankton

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Sea surface water variability during the Mid-Brunhes inferred from calcareous plankton in the western Mediterranean (ODP Site 975)

scientific article published in 2016

Seasonal Variation in Shell Calcification of Planktonic Foraminifera in the NE Atlantic Reveals Species-Specific Response to Temperature, Productivity, and Optimum Growth Conditions

scientific article

Seasonal and interannual variability of the planktic foraminiferal flux in the vicinity of the Azores Current

Seasonal distribution of genetic types of planktonic foraminifer morphospecies in the Santa Barbara Channel and its paleoceanographic implications

Sedimentology and geochemistry of an exceptionally preserved last interglacial sapropel S5 in the Levantine Basin (Mediterranean Sea)

scholarly article by Tobias Moller et al published January 2012 in Marine Geology

Selective responses of benthic foraminifera to thermal pollution.

scientific article

Sensitivity of Red Sea circulation to monsoonal variability during the Holocene: An integrated data and modeling study

Sensitivity of Red Sea circulation to sea level and insolation forcing during the last interglacial

Sensitivity to species selection indicates the effect of nuisance variables on marine microfossil transfer functions

Sensitivity to species selection indicates the effect of nuisance variables on marine microfossil transfer functions

Shared ancestry of algal symbiosis and chloroplast sequestration in foraminifera

scientific article published on 13 October 2023

Strong temperature gradients in the ice age North Atlantic Ocean revealed by plankton biogeography

Surface ocean metabarcoding confirms limited diversity in planktonic foraminifera but reveals unknown hyper-abundant lineages

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Surface sediment samples from early age of seafloor exploration can provide a late 19th century baseline of the marine environment

Systematic change of foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios across a strong salinity gradient

scholarly article

Taphonomic and Ontogenetic Effects on Na/Ca and Mg/Ca in Spinose Planktonic Foraminifera From the Red Sea

Taxonomic review of living planktonic foraminifera

scientific article published in 2022

Temperature-induced stress leads to bleaching in larger benthic foraminifera hosting endosymbiotic diatoms

article published in 2011

Terminal Cretaceous warming event in the mid-latitude South Atlantic Ocean: evidence from poleward migration of Contusotruncana contusa (planktonic foraminifera) morphotypes

article

The FORCIS database: A global census of planktonic Foraminifera from ocean waters

scientific article published in 2023

The Indian winter monsoon and its response to external forcing over the last two and a half centuries

article

The cryptic and the apparent reversed: lack of genetic differentiation within the morphologically diverse plexus of the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides sacculifer

The effect of sea surface properties on shell morphology and size of the planktonic foraminifer Neogloboquadrina pachyderma in the North Atlantic

scientific article published in 2013

Thermal tolerance and range expansion of invasive foraminifera under climate changes ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Tracing shifts of oceanic fronts using the cryptic diversity of the planktonic foraminifera Globorotalia inflata

Unassigned diversity of planktonic foraminifera from environmental sequencing revealed as known but neglected species

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Upper water mass variability in the Anegada–Jungfern Passage, NE Caribbean, during the last 11,100 cal. yr

Upper-ocean flux of biogenic calcite produced by the Arctic planktonic foraminifera <i>Neogloboquadrina pachyderma</i>

scientific article published in 2022

Uptake of phytodetritus by benthic foraminifera under oxygen depletion at the Indian margin (Arabian Sea)

scientific article published in 2014

Using the Multiple Analysis Approach to Reconstruct Phylogenetic Relationships among Planktonic Foraminifera from Highly Divergent and Length-polymorphic SSU rDNA Sequences

scientific article (publication date: 11 November 2009)

Variability in <i>Neogloboquadrina pachyderma</i> stable isotope ratios from isothermal conditions: implications for individual foraminifera analysis

scientific article published in 2022

Variability of North Atlantic heat transfer during MIS 2

article published in 2003

Variable habitat depth of the planktonic foraminifera <i>Neogloboquadrina pachyderma</i> in the northern high latitudes explained by sea-ice and chlorophyll concentration

Vertical niche partitioning between cryptic sibling species of a cosmopolitan marine planktonic protist

scientific article published on 28 June 2012

Vertical niche separation control of diversity and size disparity in planktonic foraminifera

scientific article published in April 2007

WITHDRAWN: Apport de l’analyse factorielle dans l’étude de la biostratigraphie et la biodiversité des associations de foraminifères planctoniques du Cénozoïque de Casamance (Sénégal)

retracted paper

Younger Dryas ice margin retreat triggered by ocean surface warming in central-eastern Baffin Bay.

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

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