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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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Distribution of Modern Salt-Marsh Foraminifera from the Eastern Mississippi Sound, U.S.A.
Christian Haller,Christopher G. Smith,Pamela Hallock,Albert C. Hine,Lisa E. Osterman,Terrence A. McCloskey +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, surface distributions of live and dead foraminiferal assemblages in the low-gradient tidal marshes of the barrier island and estuarine complex of the eastern Mississippi Sound (Grand Bay, Pascagoula River, Fowl River, Dauphin Island) were identified from a gradient of different elevation zones across the study area.
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La biomasse des foraminifères planctoniques actuels et son impact sur la pompe biologique de carbone
TL;DR: In this article, a methode analytique non-destructive developpee a partir de la methode bicinchoninic acid (BCA) is presented.
Modern seawater acidification: the response of foraminifera to high co2 conditions in the mediterranean sea and pteropods in the caribbean sea
Christopher W. Smart,Bruna Borba Dias,Malcom B Hart,J Hayden,Jason M. Hall-Spencer,D Wall-Palmer +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined changes in foraminiferal assemblages along pH gradients at CO2 vents on the coast of Ischia and showed that the foraminifereral distribution, diversity and nature of the fauna change markedly as pH decreases.
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Late Quaternary benthic foraminifera and the Orinoco Plume
Brent G. Wilson,Lee-Ann C. Hayek +1 more
TL;DR: The bathyal benthic foraminiferal palaeoecology of the Orinoco plume is studied in this article, showing a transition from a low diversity, Cibicidoides pachyderma-dominated community with subdominant Cassidulina curvata to a later high diversity, low-dominance Bulimina alazanensis-Osangularielloides rugosa-Epistominella exigua community.
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Inner Shelf Benthic Foraminifera of the South China Sea, East Coast Peninsular Malaysia
Rokiah Suriadi,Hasrizal Shaari,Stephen J. Culver,Mohd Lokman Husain,V R Vijayan,Peter R Parham,Peter R Parham,Peter R Parham,Abdullah Sulaiman,Noraisyah Sapon +9 more
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The distributional patterns of modern benthic foraminifera from the inner shelf of the southern South China Sea, off the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, are documented for the first time. The study area from Tanjung Sedili, Johor in the south to Marang, Terengganu, in the north was selected for a sand-resource study by the Minerals and Geoscience Department, Malaysia in 1993. Twenty-four surface sediment samples from <50 m water depth contained 266 foraminiferal species belonging to 6 orders, 49 families, and 117 genera, including 32 agglutinated, 130 calcareous hyaline, and 104 calcareous porcelaneous species. Two biofacies were distinguished by cluster analysis. Biofacies A was characterized by high relative abundance of Amphistegina papillosa and few other larger benthic foraminiferal (LBF) taxa in sandier sediments. Biofacies B was characterized by Pseudorotalia schroeteriana and other small rotaliids that were found in muddy sediments. The following features of foraminiferal assemblages and sediments reflect the strong fluvial/terrestrial influence on this tropical shelf environment: the overall moderate foraminiferal diversity, dominance of rotaliids over miliolids, overall dominance of smaller foraminiferal assemblages by Elphidium crispum, the limited diversity of LBF, the limited abundance of A. lessonii and the dominance of LBF assemblages by A. papillosa at relatively shallow depths. These features indicate at least intermittently turbid waters with limited light penetration and the dominance of the shelf sediments by siliciclastics, with mean percent carbonates <35%.
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