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  • Biogeochemistry

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  • Coccolithophores are calcifying marine phytoplankton vital to ocean ecosystems.
  • These organisms face significant risks from global climate change.
  • Understanding the reasons for coccolithophore calcification is essential for predicting their response to environmental shifts.

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  • To critically assess the costs and benefits of calcification in coccolithophores.
  • To explore the evolutionary history and cell biology driving calcification.
  • To understand how calcification influences coccolithophore ecology and diversity.

Main Methods:

  • Review of coccolithophorid evolutionary history and cell biology.
  • Analysis of insights from recent experimental studies.
  • Ecosystem modeling to illustrate the cost-benefit dynamics of calcification.

Main Results:

  • Calcification imposes high energy demands on coccolithophores.
  • Initial calcification may have evolved to deter grazing.
  • Additional benefits include protection from photodamage and pathogen attack, explaining their ecological success.

Conclusions:

  • Calcification provides multiple benefits that outweigh its energetic costs for coccolithophores.
  • The balance between calcification costs and benefits will determine coccolithophore fate under ocean acidification and warming.
  • Further research is needed to fully understand these complex ecological and physiological trade-offs.