Modellierung biogeographischer Arealveränderungen: Die Foraminiferenfauna des süd-östlichen Afrikas.

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Martin Langer
• Subject Area: Palaeontology
• Term: from 2010 to 2015
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 162530359

• Final Report Year: 2015

Final Report Abstract

Over the course of this project (and the previous project) we have collected several hundred samples of shallow-water benthic foraminifera from the coastline of Kenia, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia and Angola. To date this represents the largest source of micropaleontological research material spanning a coastline of approximately 9000 km. With this project we have successfully established species distribution modeling (SDM) in foraminiferal research. We have published the first atlas of benthic foraminifera on foraminifera from Bazaruto (Mozambique). A complete Atlas of benthic foraminifera from southern African coastal areas will follow.

Publications

• (2012) „Strangers“ in Paradise: Modeling the biogeographic range expansion of the foraminifera Amphistegina in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 42 (3): 235–245
  Langer MR, Weinmann AE, Lötters S, Rödder D
  
• 2012. Ontogenetic Morphogenesis and Biogeographic Patterns: Resolving Taxonomic Incongruences within “Species” of Buccella from South American Coastal Waters. Rev. Bras. Paleontol: 15(1):23-32
  Calvo-Marcilese, L., and Langer, M.R.
  
• (2013) Climate-driven range extensions of Amphistegina (Protista, Foraminiferida): Models of current and predicted future ranges. PLoS One 8 (2): e54443
  Langer MR, Weinmann AE, Lötters S, Bernhard JM, Rödder D
  
• (2013) Heading for new shores: Projecting marine distribution ranges of selected larger foraminifera. PLoS One 8(4): e62182
  Weinmann AE, Rödder D, Lötters S, Langer MR
  
• (2013) Traveling through time: The past, present and future biogeographic range of the invasive foraminifera Amphistegina spp. in the Mediterranean Sea, Marine Micropaleontology (2013)
  Weinmann, A.E., Rödder D., Lötters S., Langer M.R.
  
• 2013. Foraminifera from the Bazaruto Archipelago (Mozambique). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, 267/2, 155-170
  Langer, M.R., Thissen, J.M., Makled, W.A., and Weinmann, A.E.,
  
• (2014) At the front of expanding ranges: Shifting community structures at amphisteginid species range margins in the Mediterranean Sea. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abh., 271/2 (2014): 141–150
  Mouanga, G.H. and Langer M.R.
  
• Emendation and taxonomic revision of Miscellanea juliettae pfenderae and M-juliettae villattea with designation of the respective holotype. Micropaleontology 61.3 (2015) 227-230
  Leppig, U. and Langer, M.R.