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| Schiebel, R.; Movellan, A.. |
| Planktic foraminifera are heterotrophic mesozooplankton of global marine abundance. The position of planktic foraminifers in the marine food web is different compared to other protozoans and ranges above the base of heterotrophic consumers. Being secondary producers with an omnivorous diet, which ranges from algae to small metazoans, planktic foraminifers are not limited to a single food source, and are assumed to occur at a balanced abundance displaying the overall marine biological productivity at a regional scale. With a new non-destructive protocol developed from the bicinchoninic acid (BCA) method and nano-photospectrometry, we have analysed the protein-biomass, along with test size and weight, of 754 individual planktic foraminifers from 21 different... |
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| Ano: 2012 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00249/36044/34586.pdf |
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| Movellan, A.; Schiebel, R.; Zubkov, M. V.; Smyth, A.; Howa, H.. |
| The ecological role of foraminifers has been largely unknown partly owing to difficulties in determining their individual biomass, although foraminifers are abundant in surface marine sediments. The present study provides a reliable and inexpensive method for the quantification of the protein content of hard-shelled foraminifers as a measure of biomass while preserving the tests for later analyses (e.g. morphometry, stable isotopes), using nano-spectrophotometry. The protein biomass, is significantly correlated with size, and shell weight of Ammonia tepida (n = 102, p < 0.00001, R-2 = 0.462, and n = 181, p < 0.00001, R-2 = 0.855). Variability in the relation between test size and weight, and cell biomass may result from natural variability in... |
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| Ano: 2012 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00287/39852/38391.pdf |
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| Schmitt, A.; Elliot, M.; Thirumalai, K.; La, C.; Bassinot, F.; Petersen, J.; Movellan, A.; Jorry, Stephan; Borgomano, J.. |
| The ratio of magnesium to calcium (Mg/Ca) in foraminiferal shells is commonly used as a proxy for past ocean temperature. Recent advances in elemental analyses now enable single-specimen measurements of planktic foraminifera and thus, can provide information on past seasonal and interannual variability, owing to the near-monthly lifespan of foraminifera. In this study, we explore the temperature variance recorded by Mg/Ca in tests of foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber, a planktic species that occurs throughout the year in tropical waters. Using LA-ICP-MS, we characterize Mg/Ca variability in single specimens of two morphotypes of G. ruber picked from a sediment core retrieved offshore New Caledonia. We provide an estimate of the range of calcification... |
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Palavras-chave: Globigerinoides ruber; Mg/Ca ratio; Sea surface temperature; LA-ICPMS; Seasonality; Quaternary. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00472/58336/60890.pdf |
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