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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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Traces of Holocene tsunamis across the Sound of Lefkada, NW Greece
Andreas Vött,Helmut Brückner,Svenja Brockmüller,Mathias Handl,Simon Matthias May,Kalliopi Gaki-Papanastassiou,Rainer Herd,Franziska Lang,H. Maroukian,Oliver Nelle,D. Papanastassiou +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented evidence of multiple tsunami inundation of the Sound of Lefkada (NW Greece) since the mid-Holocene based on the analysis of sediment cores by means of geomorphological, sedimentological, geochemical, micromorphological and micropalaeontological methods.
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Benthic foraminiferal assemblages from Moreton Bay, South-East Queensland, Australia: applications in monitoring water and substrate quality in subtropical estuarine environments.
TL;DR: The foraminiferal assemblages of Moreton Bay make excellent bio-indicators of environmental changes in a subtropical, estuarine setting in eastern Australia.
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Foraminiferal survival after long-term in situ experimentally induced anoxia
Dewi Langlet,Emmanuelle Geslin,C. Baal,Edouard Metzger,Franck Lejzerowicz,Bettina Riedel,Martin Zuschin,Jan Pawlowski,Michael Stachowitsch,Frans Jorissen +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the CellTracker TM Green method was applied and calcareous and agglutinated foraminifera were analyzed to accurately determine whether they can survive experimentally induced prolonged anoxia.
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Climatic cycles as expressed in sediments of the PROMESS1 borehole PRAD1‐2, central Adriatic, for the last 370 ka: 1. Integrated stratigraphy
Andrea Piva,Alessandra Asioli,Ralph R Schneider,Fabio Trincardi,Nils Andersen,Elena Colmenero-Hidalgo,Bernard Dennielou,José-Abel Flores,Luigi Vigliotti +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a multiproxy integrated chronological framework, based on oxygen and carbon stable isotope stratigraphy, biostratigraphy (foraminifera and nannoplankton bioevents and foraminifer assemblage-based climate cyclicity), magnetostrategies, sapropel stratigraphies, and (14)C AMS radiometric dates, has been achieved for borehole PRAD1-2, collected in 185.5 m water depth in the central Adriatic.
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A Novel Eukaryotic Denitrification Pathway in Foraminifera.
Christian Woehle,Alexandra-Sophie Roy,Nicolaas Glock,Tanita Wein,Julia Weissenbach,Philip Rosenstiel,Claas Hiebenthal,Jan Michels,Joachim Schönfeld,Tal Dagan +9 more
TL;DR: Large-scale genome and transcriptomes analyses reveal the presence of a denitrification pathway in foraminifera species of the genus Globobulimina as well as a wide range of nitrite/nitrate transporters, including the enzymes nitrite reductase and nitric oxide reductases.
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