Morphology of Orbulina universa and Globorotalia scitula across local extinctions during Sapropel S5 (Eastern Mediterranean Sea, c.126-121 ka)

• Main Authors: Weinkauf, Manuel F G, Moller, Tobias F, Koch, Mirjam C, Kucera, Michal
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; MARUM; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.832132; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.832132

Extinction is a remarkably difficult phenomenon to study under natural conditions. This is because the outcome of stress exposure and associated fitness reduction is not known until the extinction occurs and it remains unclear whether there is any phenotypic reaction of the exposed population that c...