Articles | Volume 16, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-813-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-813-2023
Development and technical paper
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02 Feb 2023
Development and technical paper |  | 02 Feb 2023

ForamEcoGEnIE 2.0: incorporating symbiosis and spine traits into a trait-based global planktic foraminiferal model

Rui Ying, Fanny M. Monteiro, Jamie D. Wilson, and Daniela N. Schmidt

Model code and software

ForamEcoGEnIE 2.0: Incorporating symbiosis and spine traits into a trait-based global planktic foraminifera model A. Ridgwell, R. Ying, C. Reinhard, S. van de Velde, M. Adloff, F. Monteiro, D. Hülse, J. Wilson, B. Ward, P. Vervoort, S. Kirtland, Turner, and M. Li https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6808760

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Planktic foraminifera are marine-calcifying zooplankton; their shells are widely used to measure past temperature and productivity. We developed ForamEcoGEnIE 2.0 to simulate the four subgroups of this organism. We found that the relative abundance distribution agrees with marine sediment core-top data and that carbon export and biomass are close to sediment trap and plankton net observations respectively. This model provides the opportunity to study foraminiferal ecology in any geological era.