Increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations lead to decreased pH and carbonate availability in the ocean (Ocean Acidification, OA). Carbon dioxide seeps serve as ‘windows into the future’ to study the ability of marine invertebrates to acclimatise to OA. We studied benthic foraminifera in sediments from shallow volcanic CO2 seeps in Papua NewGuinea. Conditions follow a gradient from present day pH...

Citation: Weiner AKM, Morard R, Weinkauf MFG, Darling KF, André A, Quillévéré F, Ujiie Y, Douady CJ, de Vargas C and Kucera M (2016) Methodology for Single-Cell Genetic Analysis of Planktonic Foraminifera for Studies of Protist Diversity and Evolution. Front. Mar. Sci. 3:255. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00255 Methodology for Single-Cell Genetic Analysis of Planktonic Foraminifera for Studies of Pro...

The responses of Ammonia parkinsoniana (Foraminifera) exposed to different concentrations of lead (Pb) were evaluated at the cytological level. Foraminifera-bearing sediments were placed in mesocosms that were housed in aquaria each with seawater of a different lead concentration. On the basis of transmission electron microscopy and environmental scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy...

Foraminifera are single-celled organisms with internal calcerous shells, known as tests. The image above shows a shell with a planispiral chamber arrangement — during growth, chambers are added sequentially to form a coil in a flat spiral. Foraminiferan tests are quite diverse. The image shown here came from a study on the nature of the material in the calcerous test and how the foraminifera de...

Dockyards and harbors are recognized as being important locations where sediment-associated pollutants can accumulate, which constitutes an environmental risk to aquatic life due to potential uptake and accumulation of heavy metals in the biota. The aim of this paper is to assess the concentrations and the effects of some heavy metals in the benthic foraminifera assemblage in Niterói Harbor. Lo...

the larger benthic foraminifera gyroconulina columellifera schroeder & darmoian, 1977 (type-locality: maastrichtian aqra formation of iraq) is described for the first time from two sections of the maastrichtian tarbur formation of the zagros fold-thrust-belt, sw iran. new details on its wall microstructure are provided. the microfacies is represented by bioclastic wacke-/pack-/grainstones with ...

Foraminifera are an important faunal element of the benthos in oxygen-depleted settings such as Oxygen Minimum Zones (OMZs) where they can play a relevant role in the processing of phytodetritus. We investigated the uptake of phytodetritus (labeled with (13)C and (15)N) by calcareous foraminifera in the 0-1 cm sediment horizon under different oxygen concentrations within the OMZ in the eastern ...