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Ecology and Applications of Benthic Foraminifera
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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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Late Pleistocene-Holocene events on the continental slope of the Laptev Sea: Evidence from benthic and planktonic foraminiferal assemblages
TL;DR: In this paper, a core of the Laptev Sea was used for the study of benthic and planktonic foraminifers and a contribution to the multidisciplinary investigations of core PS51/154-11 from the laptev sea was made.
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Assessing the ecological preferences of agglutinated benthic foraminiferal morphogroups from the western Bay of Bengal
TL;DR: The study suggests a clear ecological preference of a majority of the agglutinated morphotypes and morphogroups and thus their potential application in paleoecological interpretations.
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Benthic and Planktic Foraminifera as Indicators of Late Glacial to Holocene Paleoclimatic Changes in a Marginal Environment: An Example from the Southeastern Bay of Biscay
Jennifer Garcia,Meryem Mojtahid,Hélène Howa,Elisabeth Michel,Ralf Schiebel,Céline Charbonnier,Pierre Anschutz,Franciscus J. Jorissen +7 more
TL;DR: The planktic foraminiferal composition indicates that surface water masses were under the influence of the polar front in the early record, which retreated at about 11.5 cal ka BP, and the early Holocene is characterized by relatively warm and stratified water masses at 8.4-4.8 cal Ka BP.
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Late-glacial to Holocene depositional architecture of the Ombrone palaeovalley system (Southern Tuscany, Italy): Sea-level, climate and local control in valley-fill variability
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed sedimentological and stratigraphic study of two cores along the Ombrone palaeovalley axis led to reconstruction of the post-Last Glacial Maximum valley-fill history.
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Benthic foraminifera to assess ecological quality statuses: The case of salmon fish farming
Vincent M.P. Bouchet,Noémie Deldicq,Noémie Baux,Noémie Baux,Jean-Claude Dauvin,Jean-Philippe Pezy,Laurent Seuront,Laurent Seuront,Laurent Seuront,Yann Méar +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of a salmon fish farm on ecological quality statuses (EcoQs) of the RdC based on a benthic foraminiferal biotic index was investigated.
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