Warm plankton soup and red herrings: calcareous nannoplankton cellular communities and the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Main Authors: Gibbs, Samantha J., Sheward, Rosie M., Bown, Paul R., Poulton, Alex J., Alvarez, Sarah A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society Publishing 2018
• Subjects: Articles; Maud Rise; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6127380/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30177560; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0075

Past global warming events such as the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM—56 Ma) are attributed to the release of vast amounts of carbon into the ocean, atmosphere and biosphere with recovery ascribed to a combination of silicate weathering and organic carbon burial. The phytoplanktonic nannopl...