Tag: foraminifera

  • There is a connection between polar climate and tropical biodiversity

    There is a connection between polar climate and tropical biodiversity

    Climate change is causing marine species’ richness around the equator to dip, as per scientists. Global warming is driving shift and shuffle in a community of North Atlantic phytoplankton, they added. The latitudinal temperature difference and its climate dependence is inferred from foraminifera 18O over 95 million years. They further said latitudinal species diversity has…