Coccolithophores [electronic resource] : From Molecular Processes to Global Impact

Coccolithophores: From Molecular Processes to Global Impact
Author: Prof. Dr. Hans R. Thierstein, Dr. Jeremy R. Young
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN: 978-3-642-06016-8
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-06278-4

Table of Contents:

• What is new in coccolithophore biology?
• Calcification in coccolithophores: A cellular perspective
• Pigment diversity of coccolithophores in relation to taxonomy, phylogeny and ecological preferences
• Emiliania huxleyi: bloom observations and the conditions that induce them
• Coccolithophores and the biological pump: responses to environmental changes
• Dimethyl sulfide production: what is the contribution of the coccolithophores?
• Re-evaluation of the physiological ecology of coccolithophores
• Structure and morphogenesis of the coccoliths of the CODENET species
• The Laboratory Culture of Coccolithophores
• A review of the phylogeny of the Haptophyta
• Super-Species in the calcareous plankton
• Coccolithophorid biodiversity: evidence from the cosmopolitan species Calcidiscus leptoporus
• Species level variation in coccolithophores
• Coccolith contribution to South Atlantic carbonate sedimentation
• Biogeography of selected Holocene coccoliths in the Atlantic Ocean
• Why is the Land Green and the Ocean Red?
• Plankton community behavior on ecological and evolutionary time-scales: when models confront evidence
• Calcareous nannoplankton evolution and diversity through time
• Carbonate fluxes and calcareous nannoplankton
• Coccolithophorid-based geochemical paleoproxies

Cell Biology and Biochemistry -- Physiology and Bloom Studies -- Molecular Phylogeny and Evolutionary Biodiversity -- Evolutionary Development, Fluxes and Paleoproxies -- Index
In the past few years rapid progress has been made regarding our understanding of one of the dominant phytoplankton groups of the world's oceans: the coccolithophores. Among other initiatives, the EU-funded TMR network CODENET (Coccolithophores Evolutionary Biodiversity and Ecology Network) has provided new results and insights. These and many other findings are reviewed and synthesized in a number of individual chapters which focus on coccolithophore biology (molecular to cellular), ecology (experimental and in the ocean), evolutionary phylogeny and its impact on current and past global changes. Coccolithophores are emerging as a prime model for interdisciplinary global change research due to their great abundance, wide distribution and exemplary geological record. The results presented in this book address the fundamental question of the interaction between the biota and the environment at various temporal and spatial scales