Publication Date:
2022-05-25
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© The Authors, 2010. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. The definitive version was published in Biogeosciences 7 (2010): 1335-1347, doi:10.5194/bg-7-1335-2010
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Benthic foraminifera were cultured for five months at four temperatures (4, 7, 14 and 21 °C) to establish the temperature dependence of foraminiferal calcite δ18O and Mg/Ca. Two Bulimina species (B. aculeata and B. marginata) were most successful in terms of calcification, adding chambers at all four temperatures and reproducing at 7 and 14 °C. Foraminiferal δ18O values displayed ontogenetic variations, with lower values in younger individuals. The δ18O values of adult specimens decreased with increasing temperature in all but the 4 °C treatment, exhibiting a relationship consistent with previous δ18O paleotemperature calibration studies. Foraminiferal Mg/Ca values, determined by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, were broadly consistent with previous Mg/Ca calibration studies, but extremely high values in the 4 °C treatment and higher than predicted values at two of the other three temperatures make it challenging to interpret these results.
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Funding
was provided by US NSF OCE-0647899 to DCM and JMB, and
by the Swedish Research Council (grant no 621-2005-4265),
the Lamm Foundation, and the Engkvist Foundation to HLF. A
Fulbright fellowship to HLF together with traveling grants from
G¨oteborg University, the Crafoord Foundation, and the Royal
Physiographic Society in Lund enabled HLF’s Postdoc stay and
subsequent visits to WHOI.
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Woods Hole Open Access Server
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Article
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