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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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Opportunities and challenges in incorporating benthic foraminifera in marine and coastal environmental biomonitoring of soft sediments: from science to regulation and practice
Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa,Cintia Hitomi Yamashita,Décio Semensatto,Ana Cláudia Aoki Santarosa,Fabiane Sayuri Iwai,Claudia Y. Omachi,Sibelle Trevisan Disaró,Maria Virgínia Alves Martins,Maria Virgínia Alves Martins,C. F. Barbosa,C. H. C. Bonetti,C. G. Vilela,Lazaro Laut,A. Turra +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the challenges and steps to move forward to implement foraminifera as bioindicators in biomonitoring routines in Brazil, and the contribution of the Brazilian foraminiferal research in this implementation process, improving ecological quality indices, adapting methods, and applying genetics tools.
Foraminifera from the Fowey Estuary, Cornwall
Christopher W. Smart,SJ Stubbles,Jodie K. Fisher,I Marshall-Penn,Malcolm B. Hart,C Hoddinott,A Yeo +6 more
TL;DR: The Fowey Estuary, in S.E. Cornwall, is one of a series of drowned valleys (rias) that characterise the south coast of both Devon and Cornwall as discussed by the authors.
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Larger benthic foraminiferal assemblages and their response to Middle Eocene Climate Optimum in the Kohat Basin (Pakistan, eastern Tethys)
Muhammad Kamran,Fabrizio Frontalini,Dang-Peng Xi,Dang-Peng Xi,Kamran Mirza,Arman Jafarian,Khalid Latif,Fahad Ali,Muhammad Kashif,Nadir Fawad,Muhammad Shafi,Xiaoqiao Wan +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the response of larger benthic foraminifera (LBF) to the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) at ∼40 Ma is identified.
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Benthonic foraminiferal paleoecology of the pleistocene in dsdp hole 148, aves ridge, eastern caribbean sea
TL;DR: The Deep Sea Drilling Project Hole 148 (DSDP Hole 148) was used by as mentioned in this paper for the identification of 212 species of benthic foraminifera, including Sigmoilopsis schlumbergeri and Bulimina aculeata.
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Recent benthic foraminifera from Twofold Bay, Eden NSW: community structure, biotopes and distribution controls
Lyndsay Dean,Patrick De Deckker +1 more
TL;DR: The authors investigated the sediments and associated foraminifer fauna in the bay and identified four different sedimentological associations linked to local currents and water depths and three foraminiferal associations, with live to dead specimen ratios established for each sample site.
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