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Deep-sea benthic foraminiferal species which exploit phytodetritus: Characteristic features and controls on distribution
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Foraminiferal populations which inhabit phytodetrital aggregates are dominated by E. exigua, A. weddellensis, E. pusilla and T. riemanni as discussed by the authors.About:
This article is published in Marine Micropaleontology.The article was published on 1993-10-01. It has received 391 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Phytodetritus & Porcupine Abyssal Plain.read more
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Ecology and Applications of Benthic Foraminifera
TL;DR: 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 and demonstrates how living foraminifera can be used to monitor modern-day environmental change.
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A conceptual model explaining benthic foraminiferal microhabitats
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conceptual model which explains benthic foraminiferal microhabitat preferences in terms of differences in the downward organic flux in the sediment.
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Live benthic foraminiferal faunas from the Bay of Biscay: faunal density, composition, and microhabitats
TL;DR: The exported flux of organic matter appears to be the main parameter controlling the composition and the vertical distribution of benthic foraminiferal faunas below the sediment-water interface.
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Chapter Seven Paleoceanographical Proxies Based on Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblage Characteristics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the paleoceanographic proxies based on deep-sea benthic foraminiferal assemblage characteristics, and present the following three proxy relationships that are promising: those between BFR faunas and BFR oxygenation, export productivity, and deep sea water mass characteristics.
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Benthic foraminifera (Protista) as tools in deep-water palaeoceanography: environmental influences on faunal characteristics.
TL;DR: Despite often clear qualitative links between environmental and faunal parameters, the development of quantitative foraminiferal proxies remains problematic, particularly those concerning the calibration of proxies, the closely interwoven effects of oxygen and food availability, and the relationship between living assemblages and those preserved in the permanent sediment record.
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Climatological atlas of the world ocean
TL;DR: A project to objectively analyze historical ocean temperature, salinity, oxygen, and percent oxygen saturation data for the world ocean has recently been completed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey.
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Climatological Atlas of the World Ocean
TL;DR: A project to objectively analyze historical ocean temperature, salinity, oxygen, and percent oxygen saturation data for the world ocean has recently been completed at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey.
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Seasonal sedimentation of phytoplankton to the deep-sea benthos
TL;DR: In this article, a similar seasonal pulse of detrital material to bathyal and abyssal depths in temperate latitudes is presented, this material seems to be derived directly from the surface primary production and to sink rapidly to the deep-sea benthos.
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Opportunistic life histories and genetic systems in marine benthic polychaetes
J.F. Grassle,J.P. Grassle +1 more
TL;DR: Using mortality as the best single measure of degree of opportunism is proposed, a definition based on mortality emphasizes the portion of the life cycle involved in adaptation through shortterm selection.
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A response by benthic Foraminifera to the deposition of phytodetritus in the deep sea
TL;DR: Evidence is presented that certain small benthic Foraminifera (within the meiofaunal size-range) react dramatically to the presence of phytodetritus, suggesting that some deep-sea bentho-foramina are specialist feeders that bloom opportunistically when the appropriate food becomes available, while others remain unaffected by the organic influx.