The Foraminiferal Response to Climate Stressors Project: Tracking the Community Response of Planktonic Foraminifera to Historical Climate Change

Planktonic Foraminifera are ubiquitous marine protozoa inhabiting the upper ocean. During life, they secrete calcareous shells, which accumulate in sediments, providing a geological record of past spatial and temporal changes their community structure. As result, provide opportunity to analyze both current historical patterns species distribution turnover this plankton group on global scale. The FORCIS project aims unlock potential by synthesizing comprehensive database abundance diversity observations living planktonic ocean over more than 100 years starting from 1910. will allow for unravelling impact multiple global-change stressors acting times, using an approach that combines statistical analysis response environmental with numerical modeling based ecological traits.