A revised estimate of the relationship between the maximum growth rate ( μ max , d −1 ) of Emiliania huxleyi and temperature ( T , °C) was made using quantile regression and literature data from culture experiments ( n = 1415). For modeling E. huxleyi bloom formation and coccolithophore functional group growth rate, this relationship is commonly assumed to follow an exponential relationship, as is the case for photosynthetic a...

Culture experiments were used to assess the applicability of Emiliania huxleyi coccolith morphology as a palaeo‐sea‐surface salinity (SSS) proxy. Coccolith morphology was dependent on salinity over a range reflecting present day marine conditions; both coccolith size and the number of coccolith elements increased linearly with increasing salinity. Using regression analysis, the effect of salinity on coccolith morphology was co...