Darwin Center programs and projects
2031: Biological validation of proxies for temperature, salinity, oxygenation and pCO2 based on experimental evidence using benthic foraminiferal cultures

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Darwin Center publications
Wit JC, De Nooijer LJ, Barras C, Jorissen FJ, Reichart GJ (2012). A reappraisal of the vital effect in cultured benthic foraminifer Bulimina marginata on Mg/Ca values: assessing temperature uncertainty relationships. Biogeosciences9: 3693-3704.
Darwin Center authors: de Nooijer L.J., Reichart G. J., Wit J. C.

Jos Wit (2012). Calibration, validation and application of foraminiferal carbonate based proxies: Reconstructing temperature, salinity and seawater Mg/Ca.
Darwin Center authors: Wit J. C.

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