The trace element composition of the calcium carbonate shells of foraminifera preserved in marine sediments is a key tool for reconstructing past ocean environments. The size of the shells is known to influence some elements but as studies usually focus on restricted size ranges, the effect of size on the trace element composition of shells from different species of foraminifera is largely unknown. To provide better constraint...

The Skagerrak basin represents the main sink area for fine-grained sediment in the North Sea region and constitutes a natural deposition center for sediments that are supplied from the Atlantic, the Baltic Sea and the surrounding continental margins and coasts. However, the exact sources and their proportional contributions to the North Sea sediments and to the Skagerrak deposits are not well understood. To trace the predomina...

Coralline algae play important ecological roles throughout the photic zone of the world’s oceans. Recent studies have shown that attached-living coralline algae can contain records of past climate variability. So far, algal-based paleo-reconstructions are mainly available from mid- to high-latitudes, while in low latitude and temperate regions only few examples exist. Here, we investigate samples from the attached-living encru...