Paläontologie, Geobiologie
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Transformation of dissolved organic matter by two Indo‐Pacific sponges
(Limnology and Oceanography, 2022-09-12)Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is the largest organic carbon reservoir in the ocean and an integral component of biogeochemical cycles. The role of free‐living microbes in DOM transformation has been studied thoroughly, ... -
Presence of a resident species aids invader evolution
(Limnology and Oceanography, 2022-08-09)Interactions between phytoplankton species shape their physiological and evolutionary responses. Yet, studies addressing the evolutionary responses of phytoplankton in changing environments often lack an explicit element ... -
Fluorescent colour patterns in the basal pectinid Pleuronectites from the Middle Triassic of Central Europe: origin, fate and taxonomic implications of fluorescence
(Palaeontology, 2022-10-27)UV light‐induced fluorescence is widely used as a key to reveal residual shell colour patterns of Neogene and Palaeogene molluscs. However, only few examples of fluorescent colour patterns are known from Mesozoic marine ... -
High Precision Femtosecond Laser Ablation ICP‐MS Measurement of Benthic Foraminiferal Mn‐Incorporation for Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction: A Case Study From the Plio‐Pleistocene Caribbean Sea
(Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2022-10-04)Closure of the Central American Seaway (CAS) and hydrology of the Caribbean Sea triggered Northern Hemisphere Glaciation and played an important role in the Pliocene to modern‐day climate re‐establishing the deep and surface ... -
Nutrient and Silicon Isotope Dynamics in the Laptev Sea and Implications for Nutrient Availability in the Transpolar Drift
(Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2022-09-23)Realistic prediction of the near‐future response of Arctic Ocean primary productivity to ongoing warming and sea ice loss requires a mechanistic understanding of the processes controlling nutrient bioavailability. To ... -
Cold‐water coral ecosystems under future ocean change: Live coral performance vs. framework dissolution and bioerosion
(Limnology and Oceanography, 2022-09-10)Physiological sensitivity of cold‐water corals to ocean change is far less understood than of tropical corals and very little is known about the impacts of ocean acidification and warming on degradative processes of dead ... -
Distribution, drivers and population structure of the invasive alien snail Tarebia granifera in the Luvuvhu system, South Africa
(River Research and Applications, 2022-02-03)Invasive alien species continue to spread and proliferate in waterways worldwide, but environmental drivers of invasion dynamics lack assessment. Knowledge gaps are pervasive in the Global South, where the frequent heavy ... -
Reversals in Temperature‐Precipitation Correlations in the Northern Hemisphere Extratropics During the Holocene
(Geophysical Research Letters, 2022-11-11)Future precipitation levels remain uncertain because climate models have struggled to reproduce observed variations in temperature‐precipitation correlations. Our analyses of Holocene proxy‐based temperature‐precipitation ... -
Testing the use of the silica deposition fluorescent probe PDMPO to estimate in situ growth rates of diatoms
(Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 2022-08-12)The fluorophore [2‐(4‐pyridyl)‐5{[4‐dimethylaminoethyl‐aminocarbamoyl‐methoxy]phenyl}oxazole], in short PDMPO, is incorporated in newly polymerized silica in diatom frustules and thereby provides a tool to estimate Si ... -
On the trail of iron uptake in ancestral Cyanobacteria on early Earth
(Geobiology, 2022-07-30)Cyanobacteria oxygenated Earth's atmosphere ~2.4 billion years ago, during the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE), through oxygenic photosynthesis. Their high iron requirement was presumably met by high levels of Fe(II) in the ... -
Testing the usefulness of optical data for zooplankton long‐term monitoring: Taxonomic composition, abundance, biomass, and size spectra from ZooScan image analysis
(Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 2022-05-28)The pelagic ecosystem of the Arctic Ocean is threatened by severe changes such as the reduction in sea‐ice coverage and increased inflow of warmer Atlantic water. The latter is already altering the zooplankton community, ... -
Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction
(Palaeontology, 2022-09-06)The biggest known mass extinction in the history of animal life occurred at the Permian–Triassic boundary and has often been linked to global warming. Previous studies have suggested that a geologically rapid (<40 kyr) ... -
Clockwise hysteresis of diatoms in response to nutrient dynamics during eutrophication and recovery
(Limnology and Oceanography, 2022-07-28)Many lake ecosystems that have been severely disturbed by eutrophication, have also experienced large human efforts to restore “natural” conditions. However, the trajectories and the extent of recovery of these lake ... -
Nonmarine Ostracoda as proxies in (geo‐)archaeology — A review
(Geoarchaeology, 2022-05-03)Ostracods as bioindicators are extremely useful for reconstructing palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate and can also indicate the provenance of sediments and materials, for example, in studies on ancient commercial networks. ... -
The first belemnite of boreal ancestry from the Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) of the western Tethys: implications for belemnite ecology
(Papers in Palaeontology, 2022-07-17)The first occurrence of the belemnite species Liobelus acrei (formerly Acroteuthis acrei) is reported from the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian) of the Vocontian Basin (VB; south‐east France). This first record of the genus ... -
Mixed Layer Depth Promotes Trophic Amplification on a Seasonal Scale
(Geophysical Research Letters, 2022-06-16)The Humboldt Upwelling System is of global interest due to its importance to fisheries, though the origin of its high productivity remains elusive. In regional physical‐biogeochemical model simulations, the seasonal amplitude ... -
Millimetre scale aeration of the rhizosphere and drilosphere
(European Journal of Soil Science, 2022-07-06)Soil aeration is a critical factor for oxygen‐limited subsoil processes, as transport by diffusion and advection is restricted by the long distance to the free atmosphere. Oxygen transport into the soil matrix is highly ... -
Flexible habitat choice of pelagic bacteria increases system stability and energy flow through the microbial loop
(Limnology and Oceanography, 2022-04-19)Pelagic bacteria can be classified into free‐living and particle‐attached life modes, which either dwell in the water column or attach to suspended particles. Bacteria with a generalist life style, however, can actively ... -
Palaeoecological signals for Mesolithic land use in a Central European landscape?
(Journal of Quaternary Science, 2022-05-12)During the Early Holocene, climate was the major factor causing fires, but whether during the Mesolithic (~11.5–7.4 cal ka BP) people co‐shaped their environment by means of fire remains of debate. Few studies have tackled ... -
The detection of bacterial exometabolites in marine dissolved organic matter through ultrahigh‐resolution mass spectrometry
(Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 2022-05-05)Bacteria play a key role in sustaining the chemodiversity of marine dissolved organic matter (DOM), yet there is limited direct evidence of a major contribution of bacterial exometabolites to the DOM pool. This study tests ... -
Mesocrystalline Architecture in Hyaline Foraminifer Shells Indicates a Non‐Classical Crystallisation Pathway
(Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2022-06-15)Calcareous foraminifer shells (tests) represent one of the most important archives for paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic reconstruction. To develop a mechanistic understanding of the relationship between environmental ... -
Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental reconstructions from sediments of Lake Emanda (Verkhoyansk Mountains, East Siberia)
(Journal of Quaternary Science, 2022-05-06)Continuous pollen and chironomid records from Lake Emanda (65°17′N, 135°45′E) provide new insights into the Late Quaternary environmental history of the Yana Highlands (Yakutia). Larch forest with shrubs (alders, pines, ... -
Always ready? Primary production of Arctic phytoplankton at the end of the polar night
(Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2021-11-11)The end of the polar night with the concurrent onset of photosynthetic biomass production ultimately leads to the spring bloom, which represents the most important event of primary production for the Arctic marine ecosystem. ... -
Variation in the predictability of lake plankton metric types
(Limnology and Oceanography, 2022-02-02)Statistical and climate models are frequently used for biodiversity projections under future climatic changes, but their predictive capacity for freshwater plankton may vary among different species and community metrics. ... -
Taxonomy and diversity of slit‐band gastropods (Order Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda from the Pennsylvanian of the USA
(Papers in Palaeontology, 2022-04-11)Pleurotomariida have the longest fossil record among living gastropods and are diverse and abundant in the middle and upper Palaeozoic. Its traditional classification is based on adult shell characters. The early shell ...