Table 3: Ecological preference of selected coccolithophore taxa. Bibliographic references are indicated.

Taxa	Ecological Preference
Placoliths	r-strategist taxa [42], high surface productivity [76-78]
F. profunda	deep nutricline [79], low prodictivity levels [15, 70, 72]
UPZ taxa	K-strategist taxa [42], surface oligotrophy [80, 81]
Miscellaneous taxa	weak tendency to K-strategist taxa [42]