Coccolithophores: From Molecular Processes to Global Impact (Hardcover)

1: Cell Biology and Biochemistry.- What is new in coccolithophore biology?.- Calcification in coccolithophores: A cellular perspective.- Pigment diversity of coccolithophores in relation to taxonomy, phylogeny and ecological preferences.- 2: Physiology and bloom studies.- Emiliania huxleyi: bloom observations and the conditions that induce them.- Coccolithophore calcification and the biological pump: response to environmental changes.- Dimethyl sulfide production: what is the contribution of the coccolithophores?.- Re-evaluation of the physiological ecology of coccolithophores.- Structure and morphogenesis of the coccoliths of the CODENET species.- The laboratory culture of coccolithophores.- 3: Molecular phytogeny and evolutionary biodiversity.- A review of the phylogeny of the Haptophyta.- Super-Species in the calcareous plankton.- Coccolithophorid biodiversity: evidence from the cosmopolitan species Calcidiscus leptoporus.- Species level variation in coccolithophores.- Coccolith contribution to South Atlantic carbonate sedimentation.- Biogeography of selected Holocene coccoliths in the Atlantic Ocean.- 4: Evolutionary development, fluxes and paleoproxies.- Why is the land green and the ocean red?.- Plankton community behavior on ecological and evolutionary timescales: when models confront evidence.- Calcareous nannoplankton evolution and diversity through time.- Carbonate fluxes and calcareous nannoplankton.- Coccolithophorid-based geochemical paleoproxies.- 5: Index.