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Panel (a): Relative abundances of selected benthic foraminiferal species and their ecological preferences (see text for explanation). Bottom current indicatorCibicides lobatulus (brown shading); unstable glaciomarine indicators -Cassidulina reniforme and Elphidium clavatum (blue shading); Atlantic water (AW) indicatorsNonionellina labradorica and Buccella frigida (orange shading); Chilled Atlantic water indicators -Islandiella norcrossi/helenae and sea ice indicator -Stainforthia loeblichi (light blue shading); agglutinated species -Adercotryma glomeratum and Recurvoides turbinatus (dark green shading); benthic foraminiferal (BF) and planktic foraminiferal (PF) concentrations -(green shading). Panel (b): Fluxes of selected benthic foraminiferal species; the total flux of benthic foraminifera; the total flux of planktic foraminifera. Foraminiferal zones (zone I-IV) are shown on the right side of the panels. Orange shading stands for the Holocene Thermal Maximum. Red triangles next to the left y-axis indicate radiocarbon dates. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)
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While general trends in the inflow of Atlantic Water (AW) to the European Arctic over the present interglacial (the Holocene) are well known, regional changes in climate and the AW current and subsequent environmental responses are less well established. In particular, there is only limited knowledge on the development of ocean currents after the l...
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