Warm plankton soup and red herrings: Calcareous nannoplankton cellular communities and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

• Main Authors: Gibbs, S, Sheward, R, Bown, PR, Poulton, A, Alvarez, S
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Society, The 2018
• Subjects: Maud Rise; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10050091/9/Bown%20VoR%20rsta.2017.0075.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10050091/

Past global warming events such as the Paleocene-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 nannop...