Email this article Worldwide Distribution Patterns of the Planktonic Shelled Protists Radiolaria (Polycystina) and Foraminifera: Similarities and Contrasts
- Authors: Demetrio Boltovskoy 1, Nancy Correa 2,3
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Affiliations:
- Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución (IEGEBA-CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Servicio de Hidrografía Naval (Ministerio de Defensa)
- Escuela de Cienciasdel Mar (InstitutoUniversitario Naval)
- Issue: Vol 53, No 8 (2019)
- Pages: 768-773
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0031-0301/article/view/168771
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030119080045
- ID: 168771
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Abstract
Planktonic Foraminifera and Polycystina (Radiolaria) depict roughly similar—but not identical—worldwide distribution patterns. Discrepancies affect both cold- and warmwater areas, as well as the latitudinal profile of species richness, which peaks at the equator in Radiolaria, but in the subtropics in Foraminifera. Some differences are probably due to group-specific dissimilarities, but preservational and methodological artifacts play a key role.
About the authors
Demetrio Boltovskoy
Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución (IEGEBA-CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires
Author for correspondence.
Email: demetrio@ege.fcen.uba.ar
Argentina, Buenos Aires
Nancy Correa
Servicio de Hidrografía Naval (Ministerio de Defensa); Escuela de Cienciasdel Mar (InstitutoUniversitario Naval)
Author for correspondence.
Email: ncorrea59@gmail.com
Argentina, Buenos Aires; Buenos Aires
