ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Characterisation Of Rhizaria in modern Oceans: from living cells to fossils
Can we simultaneously learn from past, present, and future oceans by studying plankton? For 521 million years, Rhizaria have abundantly and ubiquitously populated all oceans from the surface to the deep. They have biomineralised intricate skeletons by using silicon, thus impacting marine biogeochemical cycles. Upon death, their skeletons can become fossils and reflect ancient planktonic life. Yet, do fossils reflect all Rhizaria populations living in the water column? What is the fate of some large biomasses of contemporary Rhizaria that would have not been preserved as fossils? Ultimately, what is the interplay between live and fossilised forms? ChORhizO will provide a holistic and…
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