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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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Relative sea-level variability during the late Middle Pleistocene: New evidence from eastern England
Natasha L. M. Barlow,Natasha L. M. Barlow,Antony J. Long,W. R. Gehrels,Margot Saher,Margot Saher,R. G. Scaife,H.J. Davies,H.J. Davies,Kirsty Penkman,David R. Bridgland,A. Sparkes,Christopher W. Smart,Sheila Taylor +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the Nar Valley in eastern England, in which is preserved evidence of a late middle Pleistocene marine transgression more than 20 vertical metres in extent.
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Middle Triassic sharks from the Catalan Coastal ranges (NE Spain) and faunal colonization patterns during the westward transgression of Tethys
Esther Manzanares,M.J. Escudero-Mozo,Humberto G. Ferrón,Humberto G. Ferrón,Carlos Martínez-Pérez,Carlos Martínez-Pérez,Héctor Botella +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the chondrichthyan fauna recovered from several Middle Triassic stratigraphic sections (Pelsonian-Longobardian) located at the Catalan Coastal Basin (westernmost Tethys).
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Testing the applicability of random forest modeling to examine benthic foraminiferal responses to multiple environmental parameters.
Masoud Asgharian Rostami,Fabrizio Frontalini,Patrizia Giordano,Fabio Francescangeli,Maria Virgínia Alves Martins,Lee A. Dyer,Federico Spagnoli +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the main environmental variables controlling benthic foraminiferal distributions were identified and used to assess their influence on ecological indices developed as predictors of Ecological Quality Status (EcoQS) in marine ecosystems.
Correlated TEM-NanoSIMS investigation of foraminiferal metabolism
TL;DR: In conclusion, correlated TEM and NanoSIMS imaging is an efficient tool to study foraminiferal metabolism and shed light on their potential role in the biogeochemical cycles of marine ecosystems.
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Multi-proxy evidence of rainfall variability recorded in subaqueous deltaic deposits off the Adra River, southeast Iberian Peninsula
I. Mendes,Francisco J. Lobo,Luis Miguel Fernández-Salas,Nieves López-González,Patricia Bárcenas,Joachim Schönfeld,Óscar Ferreira +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, two sediment cores were retrieved off the Adra River, from the western and eastern (MS_V9 and MS_V4) lobes of the subaqueous deltaic deposit, and a multi-proxy study was carried out, including grain size, benthic foraminiferal assemblages, magnetic susceptibility and geochemical element analyses.
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