Variability of Mg-calcite in Antarctic bryozoan skeletons across spatial scales.

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Loxton, Jennifer, Kuklinski, Piotr, Barnes, David K. A., Najorka, Jens, Spencer Jones, Mary, Porter, Joanne S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Inter-Research 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Adelaide Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503960/

Bryozoans exhibit a highly variable chemistry within their calcium carbonate skeletons. Previous studies have shown that the level of Mg-calcite in skeletons increases with increasing seawater temperature. For high-latitude regions such as the Antarctic, which have a low range of annual sea-temperat...