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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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Paleoenvironmental interpretations based on foraminiferal abundance biozones, mayo limestone, trinidad, west indies, including alpha and beta diversities
TL;DR: Foraminiferal assemblages are more sensitive to environmental parameters and commonly reflect these subtle changes as discussed by the authors, and the accuracy of paleoenvironmental interpretations depends on the precise delineation and interpretation of abundance biozones (ABs).
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Aragonite saturation state in a tropical coastal embayment dominated by phytoplankton blooms (Guanabara Bay - Brazil).
Luiz C. Cotovicz,Luiz C. Cotovicz,Bastiaan A. Knoppers,Nilva Brandini,Dominique Poirier,Suzan J. Costa Santos,Gwenaël Abril,Gwenaël Abril +7 more
TL;DR: This study showed that the eutrophication controlled the variations of Ωarag in Guanabara Bay, with the lowest values of ΪΩarag found at low-buffered waters in regions that receive direct discharges from domestic effluents and polluted rivers.
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Protein biomass quantification of unbroken individual foraminifers using nano-spectrophotometry
TL;DR: The present study provides a reliable and inexpensive method for the quantification of the protein content of hard-shelled foraminifers as a measure of biomass while preserving the tests for later analyses (e.g. morphometry, stable isotopes), using nano-spectrophotometry.
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Modern salt-marsh and tidal-flat foraminifera from Sitkinak and Simeonof Islands, southwestern Alaska
Andrew C. Kemp,Andrew C. Kemp,Simon E. Engelhart,Simon E. Engelhart,Stephen J. Culver,Alan R. Nelson,Richard W. Briggs,Peter J. Haeussler +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the modern distribution of salt-marsh and tidal-flat foraminifera from Sitkinak Island (Trinity Islands) and Simeonof Island (Shumagin Islands), Alaska, was described for later use in reconstructing relative sea-level changes caused by great earthquakes along the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone.
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The morphogroups of small agglutinated foraminifera from the Devonian carbonate complex of the Prague Synform, (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)
Katarína Holcová,Ladislav Slavík +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors classified foraminifera from the Lower and lower part of the Middle Devonian, predominantly limestones of the Prague Synform (Barrandian area), into five morphogroups: morphogroup ED1 was divided to morphotype ED1a which is represented by foraminifa with straight tubular or branched tests.
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