Cenozoic planktonic marine diatom diversity and correlation to climate change.

Marine planktonic diatoms export carbon to the deep ocean, playing a key role in the global carbon cycle. Although commonly thought to have diversified over the Cenozoic as global oceans cooled, only two conflicting quantitative reconstructions exist, both from the Neptune deep-sea microfossil occur...

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Main Authors: David Lazarus, John Barron, Johan Renaudie, Patrick Diver, Andreas Türke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24465441/pdf/?tool=EBI