In this volume John Murray investigates the ecological processes that control the distribution, abundance, and species diversity of benthic foraminifera in environments ranging from marsh to the deepest ocean. To interpret the fossil record it is necessary to have an understanding of the ecology of modern foraminifera and the processes operating after death leading to burial and fossilisation. This book presents the ecological background required to explain how fossil forms are used in dating rocks and reconstructing past environmental features including changes of sea level. It demonstrates how living foraminifera can be used to monitor modern-day environmental change. Ecology and Applications of Benthic Foraminifera presents a comprehensive and global coverage of the subject using all the available literature. It is supported by a website hosting a large database of additional ecological information (www.cambridge.org/0521828392) and will form an important reference for academic researchers and graduate students in Earth and Environmental Sciences.

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Ecology and Applications of Benthic Foraminifera

The purpose of this review is to present and discuss current knowledge on the role played by bacteria in the carbon cycle of ecosystems. The ecological experience of the authors explains why our examples are mainly derived from aquatic systems; many of the discussed principles, however, apply equally well to terrestrial systems. In fact the one environmental requirement common to all microorganisms is the presence of free water, and in a sense all microorganisms are aquatic organisms.

Detritus Food Chains of Aquatic Ecosystems: The Role of Bacteria

Barrier-island genesis: evidence from the central atlantic shelf, eastern U.S.A.

Chapter 1 Coastal Lagoons

https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/sites/harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/files/ellison-pubs/2008/Ellison_2008_JSR.pdf

Fred B. Phleger

Papers

Lagunas costeras : un simposio