Neogloboquadrina pachyderma

Data on the planktonic foraminifer Neogloboquadrina pachyderma from the northeastern region of the Atlantic Ocean (west of Ireland) enabled retrieval of SST and the tracing of Heinrich events associated with iceberg kicks. 

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Bauch D., Carstens J., and Wefer G. (1997) Oxygen isotope composition of living Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sin.) in the Arctic Ocean. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 146(1-2), 47-58. 

Kohfeld K. E., Fairbanks R. G., Smith S. L., and Walsh I. D. (1996) Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (sinistral coiling) as paleoceanographic tracers in polar oceans evidence from northeast water polynya plankton tows, sediment traps, and surface sediments. Paleoceanography 11(6), 679-699. 

Fig. 8. Sea surface temperature (SST)-size relationship for species with different environmental adaptations (data from Schmidt et al. 2004a) the polar species Neogloboquadrina pachyderma sinistral, the subpolar species Globigerina buUoides, Globorotalia truncatulinoides showing two environmental optima one for the subtropical type (after de Vargas et al. 2001) and one for the temperate type and for the tropical species Globorotalia mermrdii.

Bauch, D., Darling, K., Simstich, J., Bauch, H. a., ERLENKEUSER, H. Kroon, D. 2003. Palaeoceano-graphic implications of genetic variation in living North Atlantic Neogloboquadrina pachyderma. Nature, 424, 299-302. 

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