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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 assemblages in turtle congregation sites along the north-east coast of India
Dola Bhattacharjee,B. C. Choudhury,Kuppusamy Sivakumar,Charu Sharma,Sajan John,Satyaranjan Behera,Subrata Kumar Behera,Punyasloke Bhadury +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the assemblage patterns of benthic foraminifers from three coastal settings in Orissa along the north-west Bay of Bengal (BoB) in India were studied for the first time for their composition, distribution and assemblages patterns.
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Variability of foraminifera associations in seagrass ecosystems in shallow water during winter (Kerkennah – Southern Tunisian coasts)
TL;DR: In this paper, the general status of the benthic and epiphytic foraminifera community related to each studied seagrass ecosystem (Posidonia oceanica, Cymodocea nodosa and Halophila stipulacea) distributed in different shallow sites in the coastal archipelago of Kerkennah (Gulf of Gabes, Tunisia) during winter.
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Origin, evolution and sedimentary processes associated with a late Miocene submarine landslide, southeast Spain
TL;DR: A submarine landslide, the Alhama de Almeria Slide, influenced late Tortonian and early Messinian sedimentary processes in the vicinity of the Sierra de Gador mountain range in southeast Spain this paper.
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Supratidal foraminifera as ecological indicators in anthropically modified wetlands (Lagoon of Venice, Italy)
TL;DR: The Mazzorbo artificial salt marsh, built during the second half of 1999, is considered in this article, where 16 samples were collected along a transect line in May 2008 to verify the ecological role of this salting within the lagoon ecosystem.
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The evolution of a coastal wedge in response to Plio-Pleistocene climate change: The Northern Adriatic case
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reconstruct the complex evolution of a coastal wedge in response to Pliocene tectonic activity and Pleistocene climate change recorded in the upper Neogene subsurface succession of the Friulian-Venetian Basin (FVB), since the latest Messinian sea-level drop event to the late Pleistian.
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