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Marine planktonic microbes survived climatic instabilities in the past
Description: This study analyzes fossil records of marine planktonic diatoms and calcareous nannoplankton over the past 65 million years from the world oceans and shows that the probability of species' extinction is not correlated with secular changes in climatic instability. [Source: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1151
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Source: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Publish Date: 2/1/2012
Reading Level: Expert
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