Table 2: Ecological preference of selected planktonic foraminifera species, from Hemleben et al. [⁴⁶], Pujol and Vergnaud-Grazzini [⁷³], Žarić et al. [⁷⁴] and Rigual-Hernández et al. [⁷⁵].

Taxa	Ecological preference
G. ruber	warm and oligotrophic surface water
N. pachyderma dx	Deep Chlorophyll Maximum
T. quinqueloba	high fertility surface water
G. bulloides	high fertility surface water