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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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Benthic Foraminifera in Hypersaline Salwa Bay (saudi Arabia): an Insight Into Future Climate Change in the Gulf Region?
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2000 ans de colmatage du port antique de Fréjus (Forum Julii), France : une double métamorphose littorale
TL;DR: The port antique de Frejus as discussed by the authors is the object of a program of recherches archeologiques and paleo-environnementales and has been investigated extensively in the last few decades.
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The Distribution Of Contemporary Saltmarsh Foraminifera In A Macrotidal Estuary: An Assessment Of Their Viability For Sea-Level Studies
TL;DR: Cluster analysis and partial Redundancy Analysis (pRDA) reveals that the elevational control decreases with respect to other environmental variable inter-correlations when the sampling elevation range is reduced, and it is proposed that this is a key issue for macrotidal environments when the contemporary sampling range represents a small proportion of the spring tidal range.
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Assessing the effect of calcein incorporation on physiological processes of benthic foraminifera
S.R. Kurtarkar,Rajeev Saraswat,Rajiv Nigam,Barnita Banerjee,Rishav Mallick,D. K. Naik,D. P. Singh +6 more
TL;DR: The findings support previous studies which proposed that short-term exposure to low calcein concentration can be used as an effective technique to distinguish newly formed chambers in laboratory experiments with foraminifera.
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Environmental instability during the latest Paleocene at Zumaia (Basque-Cantabric Basin): The bellwether of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
TL;DR: In this paper, a combined study of benthic foraminifera and geochemical proxies allowed the authors to assess the consequences of an extreme, global warming event, and to investigate its environmental precursors, with special attention to the analysis of the uppermost Paleocene.
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