The Foraminiferal Response to Climate Stressors Project: Tracking the Community Response of Planktonic Foraminifera to Historical Climate Change

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: de Garidel-Thoron, Thibault, Chaabane, Sonia, Giraud, Xavier, Meilland, Julie, Jonkers, Lukas, Kucera, Michal, Brummer, Geert-Jan, Grigoratou, Maria, Monteiro, Fanny, Greco, Mattia, Mortyn, P. Graham, Kuroyanagi, Azumi, Howa, Hélène, Beaugrand, Gregory, Schiebel, Ralf
• Other Authors: Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Centre de Synthèse et d’Analyse sur la Biodiversité (CESAB), Fondation pour la recherche sur la Biodiversité (FRB), Center for Marine Environmental Sciences Bremen (MARUM), Universität Bremen, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), University of Bristol Bristol, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Tohoku University Sendai, Université d'Angers (UA), Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187 (LOG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Nord ), Atmospheric Chemistry Department MPIC, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB), CESAB of the French Foundation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB; www.fondationbiodiversite.fr), French National program LEFE (Les Enveloppes Fluides et l’Environnement), and Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC).
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://insu.hal.science/insu-03793683; https://insu.hal.science/insu-03793683/document; https://insu.hal.science/insu-03793683/file/fmars-09-827962.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.827962

International audience Planktonic Foraminifera are ubiquitous marine protozoa inhabiting the upper ocean. During life, they secrete calcareous shells, which accumulate in marine sediments, providing a geological record of past spatial and temporal changes in their community structure. As a result, they provide the opportunity to analyze both current and historical patterns of species distribution and community turnover in this plankton group on a global scale. The FORCIS project aims to unlock this potential by synthesizing a comprehensive global database of abundance and diversity observations of living planktonic Foraminifera in the upper ocean over more than 100 years starting from 1910. The database will allow for unravelling the impact of multiple global-change stressors acting on planktonic Foraminifera in historical times, using an approach that combines statistical analysis of temporal diversity changes in response to environmental changes with numerical modeling of species response based on their ecological traits.