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Agrotis; Bacillariophyceae; Chaetoceros; Ciliophora; El Nino; Eucampia; Miozoa; Protozoa; Thalassiosira; biomass; carbon; climate change; community structure; energy flow; oceanography; phytoplankton; sea ice; wind; Antarctic region; Antarctica
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... Deepening the knowledge on Antarctic coastal plankton and its links with environmental conditions is essential to understand the role of these organisms in the carbon and energy flow, and to detect and predict impacts of climate change. This study addresses for the first time the seasonal succession (February 2016 to April 2017) of the phytoplanktonic and protozoan communities of Scotia Bay (Lauri ...
... Recently radiated dinoflagellates Apocalathium aciculiferum (collected in Lake Erken, Sweden), Apocalathium malmogiense (Baltic Sea) and Apocalathium aff. malmogiense (Highway Lake, Antarctica) represent a lineage with an unresolved phylogeny. We determined their phylogenetic relationships using phylotranscriptomics based on 792 amino acid sequences. Our results showed that A. aciculiferum diverge ...
... The processes underpinning the differences between Antarctic and sub-Antarctic ecological communities are still unclear. Dispersal, drift, speciation, and abiotic environmental filtering have been considered to explain these differences; biotic interactions, however, have received less attention. Antarctic intertidal assemblages of macrobenthic grazers are characterised by numerically abundant pop ...
Eocene epoch; Miozoa; Oligocene epoch; Selandian age; Thanetian age; biostratigraphy; museums; paleoecology; Angola; Antarctica; Australia; Belgium; Central Africa; Gulf of Guinea; New Zealand
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... Forty-four rock samples from the Landana section, belonging to the historical Dartevelle collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) at Tervuren, Belgium, were palynologically processed and analysed. Systematic analysis of the samples from the Landana sea cliff locality has revealed 90 dinoflagellate cyst taxa spanning an interval that ranges at least from the middle Paleocene to the ...
... Annual fast ice at Scott Base (Antarctica) in late summer contained a high biomass surface community of mixed phytoflagellates, dominated by the dinoflagellate, Polarella glacialis. At this time of the year, ice temperatures rise close to melting point and salinities drop to less than 20. At the same time, pH levels can rise above 9 and nutrients can become limiting. In January 2014, the sea ice m ...
... Light state transitions (STs) is a reversible physiological process that oxygenic photosynthetic organisms use in order to minimize imbalances in the electronic excitation delivery to the reaction centers of Photosystems I and II, and thus to optimize photosynthesis. STs have been studied extensively in plants, green algae, red algae and cyanobacteria, but sparsely in algae with secondary red alga ...
... We studied the spatial variations of six volatile halocarbons (VHCs), namely, iodomethane (CH₃I), chloroform (CHCl₃), tetrachloroethylene (C₂Cl₄), bromodichloromethane (CHBrCl₂), dibromomethane (CH₂Br₂), and carbon tetrachloride (CCl₄), and the environmental influencing factors involved in the cycling of VHCs in the upper ocean (0–500 m) off the Northern Antarctic Peninsula (NAP) during the summer ...
... Fifty‐seven samples taken from ten piston cores collected along a transect off the continental margin of the Northern Basin, Ross Sea, Antarctica were analyzed for palynomorphs. Moderately diverse assemblages of marine microplankton and terrestrial palynomorphs were recovered. The palynomorph assemblages have been subdivided into two main groups: the in‐situ flora (including acritarchs, dinoflagel ...
Alexander J. P. Houben; Peter K. Bijl; Jörg Pross; Steven M. Bohaty; Sandra Passchier; Catherine E. Stickley; Ursula Röhl; Saiko Sugisaki; Lisa Tauxe; Tina van de Flierdt; Matthew Olney; Francesca Sangiorgi; Appy Sluijs; Carlota Escutia; Henk Brinkhuis
... Southern Change Antarctica has been mostly covered by ice since the inception of large-scale continental glaciation during the Oligocene, which profoundly altered the isotopic and mineralogical records of the sediments surrounding the continent. Houben et al. (p. 341) found records of the corresponding living systems in the fossil marine dinoflagellate cysts, which revealed that a microplankton ec ...
Denise K. Kulhanek; Richard H. Levy; Christopher D. Clowes; Joseph G. Prebble; Daniel Rodelli; Luigi Jovane; Hugh E.G. Morgans; Christoph Kraus; Horst Zwingmann; Elizabeth M. Griffith; Howie D. Scher; Robert M. McKay; Timothy R. Naish
... Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) Site 270, located in the central high of the Ross Sea, was cored to 422.5 m below seafloor (mbsf) and recovered a thick Oligocene to lower Miocene sequence of mudstone with varying amounts of ice rafted debris (IRD), overlain by ~20 m of Pliocene to Recent diatom silty clay with IRD. This site provides important temporal constraints on regional stratigraphy and ins ...
... A palynological analysis was undertaken on 16 samples from seven piston cores collected along two offshore transects near Seymour and James Ross Islands. Diverse assemblages of reworked marine microplankton (including organic‐walled dinoflagellate cysts, cymatiosphaerids, leiospheres, and other acritarchs) and terrestrial palynomorphs (including pollen and spores) were recovered from glacio‐marine ...
... Two new palynomorph taxa are described, and several existing taxa are discussed from the Upper Jurassic‐Lower Cretaceous Byers Group of Livingston and Snow islands, South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula. Oligosphaeridium byersense sp. nov., a dinoflagellate cyst species, is found in the Valanginian interval of the Byers Group. Globorotundata acrita gen. et sp. nov., apalynomorph of unknown a ...
... Palynological results from opposite sides of the northernmost Antarctic Peninsula provide insight on terrestrial vegetation and sea-surface conditions immediately before the Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT), through Early Oligocene glacial conditions and the subsequent Late Oligocene interglacial interval. A latest Eocene sample set from the uppermost La Meseta Formation on Seymour Island, James ...
... Most pre‐Quaternary palynology samples are currently prepared by demineralization of the sediment/sedimentary rock matrix using hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acids (HCl and HF respectively). If a consistently effective alternative to this procedure can be developed, palynological processing will be made significantly less hazardous to both laboratory personnel, and to the wider environment. Furthe ...
... A high-resolution sedimentological and palynological study was performed in combination with biomarker-based organic geochemical temperature proxies TEX₈₆ and MBT′/CBT, on a 7.4-m-thick continuous section straddling the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary at Seymour Island, at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The K-Pg interval of the Seymour Island section was deposited in a deltaic/e ...
Eocene epoch; Miozoa; drilling; geometry; marine sediments; new genus; new species; Antarctica
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... Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 318 recovered lower Eocene sediments in Hole U1356A from the continental rise of the Wilkes Land Margin, Antarctica. These sediments yielded a new genus of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts (Adeliesphaera gen. nov.). We tentatively place this new genus within the suborder Gonyaulacineae, family Areoligeraceae, based on the obligate apical arche ...