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Silvia Spezzaferri
Researcher at University of Fribourg
Publications - 133
Citations - 2705
Silvia Spezzaferri is an academic researcher from University of Fribourg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Foraminifera & Benthic zone. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 125 publications receiving 2284 citations. Previous affiliations of Silvia Spezzaferri include University of Milan & University of Vienna.
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The FOBIMO (FOraminiferal BIo-MOnitoring) initiative—Towards a standardised protocol for soft-bottom benthic foraminiferal monitoring studies
Joachim Schönfeld,Elisabeth Alve,Emmanuelle Geslin,Frans Jorissen,Sergei Korsun,Silvia Spezzaferri +5 more
TL;DR: The aim is to standardise methodologies used in bio-monitoring only and not to limit the use of different methods in pure scientific studies, and to propose two types of recommendations about living (stained) benthic foraminiferal assemblages.
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Seven Million Years of Glaciation in Greenland
TL;DR: Glacial till, glaciomarine diamictites, and ice-rafted detritus found in marine cores collected off the shore of southeast Greenland record multiple Late Cenozoic glaciations beginning in the Late Miocene.
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The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the neogene
Fritz F. Steininger,Marie-Pierre Aubry,William A. Berggren,M. Biolzi,A. M. Borsetti,Julie E. Cartlidge,F. Cati,Richard M. Corfield,R. Gelati,Silvia Maria Iaccarino,C. Napoleone,Franz Ottner,Fred Rögl,Reinhard Roetzel,Silvia Spezzaferri,F. Tateo,Giuliana Villa,D. Zevenboom +17 more
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Fossil and Genetic Evidence for the Polyphyletic Nature of the Planktonic Foraminifera "Globigerinoides", and Description of the New Genus Trilobatus
Silvia Spezzaferri,Michal Kucera,Paul Nicholas Pearson,Bridget S. Wade,Sacha Rappo,Christopher R. Poole,Raphael Morard,Claudio Stalder +7 more
TL;DR: Combined fossil and molecular genetic data indicate that this genus, as traditionally understood, is polyphyletic, and a new genus Trilobatus is erected for the trilobus group (type species Globigerina triloba Reuss) and amended Globoturborotalita and Globigerinoides to clarify morphology and wall textures of these genera.
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Developing Foram-AMBI for biomonitoring in the Mediterranean: Species assignments to ecological categories
Frans Jorissen,Maria Pia Nardelli,Ahuva Almogi-Labin,Christine Barras,Luisa Bergamin,Erica Bicchi,Erica Bicchi,Akram El Kateb,Luciana Ferraro,Mary McGann,Caterina Morigi,Caterina Morigi,Elena Romano,Anna Sabbatini,Magali Schweizer,Silvia Spezzaferri +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the distribution patterns of benthic foraminifera in the Mediterranean as a function of organic carbon gradients on the basis of 15 publications and assign individual species to five ecological categories.