Seasonal response of coccolithophores and its potential to reconstruct paleomonsoon in the eastern Indonesian seas: an overview

Abstract Coccolithophore is a group of marine calcifying phytoplankton and its living distribution sensitive to ecological change within the photic zone. Their coccoliths contribute majorly sediments have become reliable proxy in paleoceanography paleoclimatology. The upper hydrology eastern Indonesian seas has been strongly influenced by seasonal climate change, Australian-Indonesian monsoon. We review discuss result previous studies on response coccolithophore significance their as for reconstructing past dynamic monsoon region. Coccolithophores abundance, species assemblages coccolith malformation respond shift environment condition modulated reversing with particular responds across Coccoliths variations sediment core archives from off southwest Sumba, Banda Sea Halmahera show an insignificant control glacial-interglacial variability paleoproducitivity. Primary productivity based relative abundance Florisphaera profunda contributed reconstruction However, more extensive continuous observation coccolithophores relationship necessary better understanding dynamics present, future.