Difference between revisions of "RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON FORAMINIFERA"
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| + | ==CLIMATE-DRIVEN RANGE EXTENSION OF ''Amphistegina''== | ||
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| + | Species-range expansions are a predicted and realized consequence of global climate change. Climate warming and the poleward widening of the tropical belt have induced range shifts in a variety of marine and terrestrial species. Range expansions may have broad implications on native biota and ecosystem functioning as shifting species may perturb recipient communities. Larger symbiont-bearing foraminifera constitute ubiquitous and prominent components of shallow water ecosystems, and range shifts of these important protists are likely to trigger changes in ecosystem functioning. We have used historical and newly acquired occurrence records to compute current range shifts of ''Amphistegina'' spp., a larger symbiont-bearing foraminifera, along the eastern coastline of Africa and compare them to analogous range shifts currently observed in the Mediterranean Sea. ...... | ||
| + | <font size="2">([http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0054443 ABSTRACT]) | ||
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| + | ----Langer, M.R., Weinmann, A.E., Lötters, S., Bernhard, J.M., Rödder, D., 2013. [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0054443 Climate-Driven Range Extension of ''Amphistegina'' (Protista, Foraminiferida): Models of Current and Predicted Future Ranges]. PLoS ONE 8(2), e54443. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054443 | ||
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==CLADOGENESIS IN MACROEVOLUTION BY INTEGRATING FOSSIL AND MOLECULAR EVIDENCE== | ==CLADOGENESIS IN MACROEVOLUTION BY INTEGRATING FOSSIL AND MOLECULAR EVIDENCE== | ||
