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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 6, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep34263
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- UKOARP [NE/I019522/1]
- NERC [NE/H017119/1]
- ERC [SP2-GA-2008-200915]
- EU Seventh Framework program Past4Future
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-12-B06-0007]
- Marie-Curie Reintegration grant [PERG-GA-2010-272134]
- EU PNRA [2013/AZ2.06]
- Italian National Antarctic Research Programme
- NERC [NE/H017119/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/H017119/1, 1095104] Funding Source: researchfish
Coccolithophores are single-celled photosynthesizing marine algae, responsible for half of the calcification in the surface ocean, and exert a strong influence on the distribution of carbon among global reservoirs, and thus Earth's climate. Calcification in the surface ocean decreases the buffering capacity of seawater for CO2, whilst photosynthetic carbon fixation has the opposite effect. Experiments in culture have suggested that coccolithophore calcification decreases under high CO2 concentrations ([CO2(aq)]) constituting a negative feedback. However, the extent to which these results are representative of natural populations, and of the response over more than a few hundred generations is unclear. Here we describe and apply a novel rationale for size-normalizing the mass of the calcite plates produced by the most abundant family of coccolithophores, the Noelaerhabdaceae. On average, ancient populations subjected to coupled gradual increases in [CO2(aq)] and temperature over a few million generations in a natural environment become relatively more highly calcified, implying a positive climatic feedback. We hypothesize that this is the result of selection manifest in natural populations over millennial timescales, so has necessarily eluded laboratory experiments.
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