Seasonal Variation in Shell Calcification of Planktonic Foraminifera in the NE Atlantic Reveals Species-Specific Response to Temperature, Productivity, and Optimum Growth Conditions
Fig 10
Mean values (lines) and range (shaded area) of chlorophyll a content of the surface waters [53], sea surface temperature (SST, ICOADS data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/), and sea surface salinity (SSS, EN4.0.2 dataset [52]) for the sampling period in the catchment area of sediment trap L1/K276.
Since salinity is highly correlated with temperature and affects the carbonate saturation state only by a factor of ten less than temperature, we did not include it in our analyses for the environmental forcing of shell calcification.