Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: investigating its potential as salinity proxy.

Kenneth Mertens; Sofia Ribeiro; Bouimetarhan Ilham; Hulya Caner; Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout; Barrie Dale; Anne de Vernal; Marianne Ellegaard; Mariana Filipova; Anna Godhe; Evelyne Goubert; Kari Grøsfjeld; Ulrike Holzwarth; Ulrich Kotthoff; Suzanne A.G. Leroy; Laurent Londeix; Fabienne Marret; Kazumi Matsuoka; Peta J. Mudle; Lieven Naudts; José Luis Peña-Manjarrez; Agneta Persson; Speranta-Maria Popescu; Vera Pospelova; Francesca Sangiorgi; Marcel T.J. van der Meer; Annemiek Vink; Karin A.F. Zonneveld; Dries Vercauteren; Jelle Vlassenbroeck; Stephen Louwye

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Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: investigating its potential as salinity proxy.

Kenneth Mertens, Sofia Ribeiro, Bouimetarhan Ilham, Hulya Caner, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Barrie Dale, Anne de Vernal, Marianne Ellegaard, Mariana Filipova, Anna Godhe, Evelyne Goubert, Kari Grøsfjeld, Ulrike Holzwarth, Ulrich Kotthoff, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Laurent Londeix, Fabienne Marret, Kazumi Matsuoka, Peta J. Mudle, Lieven NaudtsJosé Luis Peña-Manjarrez, Agneta Persson, Speranta-Maria Popescu, Vera Pospelova, Francesca Sangiorgi, Marcel T.J. van der Meer, Annemiek Vink, Karin A.F. Zonneveld, Dries Vercauteren, Jelle Vlassenbroeck, Stephen Louwye

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A biometrical analysis of the dinoflagellate cyst Lingulodinium machaerophorum [Deflandre, G., Cookson, I.C., 1955. Fossil microplankton from Australia late Mesozoic and Tertiary sediments. Australian journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 6: 242–313.] Wall, 1967 in 144 globally distributed surface sediment samples revealed that the average process length is related to summer salinity and temperature at a water depth of 30 m by the equation (salinity/temperature) = (0.078low asteriskaverage process length + 0.534) with R2 = 0.69. This relationship can be used to reconstruct palaeosalinities, albeit with caution. The particular ecological window can be associated with known distributions of the corresponding motile stage Lingulodinium polyedrum (Stein) Dodge, 1989. Confocal laser microscopy showed that the average process length is positively related to the average distance between process bases (R2 = 0.78), and negatively related to the number of processes (R2 = 0.65). These results document the existence of two end members in cyst formation: one with many short, densely distributed processes and one with a few, long, widely spaced processes, which can be respectively related to low and high salinity/temperature ratios. Obstruction during formation of the cysts causes anomalous distributions of the processes. From a biological perspective, processes function to facilitate sinking of the cysts through clustering.

Original language	English
Journal	Marine Micropaleontology
Volume	70
Issue number	1-2
Pages (from-to)	54-69
Number of pages	15
ISSN	0377-8398
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.10.004
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Mertens, K., Ribeiro, S., Ilham, B., Caner, H., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Dale, B., de Vernal, A., Ellegaard, M., Filipova, M., Godhe, A., Goubert, E., Grøsfjeld, K., Holzwarth, U., Kotthoff, U., Leroy, S. A. G., Londeix, L., Marret, F., Matsuoka, K., Mudle, P. J., ... Louwye, S. (2009). Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: investigating its potential as salinity proxy. Marine Micropaleontology, 70(1-2), 54-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.10.004

Mertens, K, Ribeiro, S, Ilham, B, Caner, H, Combourieu-Nebout, N, Dale, B, de Vernal, A, Ellegaard, M, Filipova, M, Godhe, A, Goubert, E, Grøsfjeld, K, Holzwarth, U, Kotthoff, U, Leroy, SAG, Londeix, L, Marret, F, Matsuoka, K, Mudle, PJ, Naudts, L, Peña-Manjarrez, JL, Persson, A, Popescu, S-M, Pospelova, V, Sangiorgi, F, van der Meer, MTJ, Vink, A, Zonneveld, KAF, Vercauteren, D, Vlassenbroeck, J & Louwye, S 2009, 'Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: investigating its potential as salinity proxy.', Marine Micropaleontology, vol. 70, no. 1-2, pp. 54-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2008.10.004

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Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: investigating its potential as salinity proxy.

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