Temperature as a likely driver shaping global patterns in mineralogical composition in bryozoans: Implications for marine calcifiers under Global Change
B. Figuerola, H. Griffiths, M. Krzeminska, A. Piwoni-Piorewicz, A. Iglikowska, P. Kuklinski
The paper analyzes bryozoan mineralogy across latitudes and temperatures to show that higher temperatures correlate with increased high-Mg calcite and bimineralic species.
bioRxiv · Sep 30, 2022Ecology