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- noun Plural form of
coccolithophorid .
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Examples
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Production of the coccoliths that cover coccolithophorids also furnishes CO2.
Physical factors mediating ecological change in the Artic 2009
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Phytoplankton species are dominated by dinoflagellates, coccolithophorids, and cyanophyceans.
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Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels reduce the pH of sea water and increase the solubility of calcium carbonate with potentially dramatic consequences for calcifying organisms, such as corals, mollusks, coccolithophorids, pteropods and forams.
Marine biodiversity 2007
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A decrease in the carbonate saturation state represses biogenic calcification of the predominant marine calcifying organisms, foraminifera and coccolithophorids.
HAnsen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past – Continued « Climate Audit 2006
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It appears (on quick read) that calcification is rate-limited by phsiology within the organism (particularly the coccolithophorids).
HAnsen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past – Continued « Climate Audit 2006
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The thing is that for the coccolithophorids at least, the production of CaCO3 was at first more a side effect of photosynthesis than a thing that they really, really wanted to do.
HAnsen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past – Continued « Climate Audit 2006
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Increasing sea water and increase the solubility of calcium carbonate with potentially dramatic consequences for calcifying organisms, such as corals, mollusks, coccolithophorids, pteropods and forams.
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