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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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Suitable sediment fraction for paleoenvironmental reconstruction and assessment of contaminated coastal areas based on benthic foraminifera: A case study from Augusta Harbour (Eastern Sicily, Italy)
Luisa Bergamin,Elena Romano +1 more
TL;DR: This study compared assemblage composition and faunal parameters in the >125 μm and >63 μm fractions of a sediment core collected in the most polluted sector of Augusta harbour to understand if the two fractions have comparable environmental significance providing reliable information on the environmental status.
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PALEOCEANOGRAPHY, BIOLOGICAL PROXIES | Benthic Foraminifera
R. Saraswat,R. Nigam +1 more
TL;DR: Benthic foraminifera are very sensitive to changes in physicochemical and biological characteristics (seawater temperature, salinity, pH, dissolved oxygen, availability of food, etc) of the ambient environment as discussed by the authors.
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Strength May Lie in Numbers: Intertidal Foraminifera Non-Negligible Contribution to Surface Sediment Reworking
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on two key species of benthic foraminifera, Quinqueloculina seminula and Ammonia tepida, and experimentally investigated their individual movements at the sediment surface.
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A multiproxy palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Loch Sunart (NW Scotland) since the Last Glacial Maximum
TL;DR: In this article, a 12 m core of Loch Sunart was acquired in the main basin of the loch sampling this sequence, and the authors presented the palaeoenvironmental data and palaeoclimatical scenario, based on a multiproxy approach, using pollen concentrations, sortable silt variation, lithic fraction and marine benthic foraminifera assemblages.
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Benthic foraminiferal proxies for pollution monitoring in al-mukalla coastal area, hadramout governate, republic of yemen
Ahmed M. El-Sabbagh,Mohamed Ibrahim,Alaa R. Mostafa,Najlaa O. Al-Habshi,Mohamed R. Abdel Kireem +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors surveyed benthic foraminiferal assemblages as potential indicators for pollution and collected geochemical, sedimentological and water-quality data, and clustered and canonical correspondence analyses delineated three areas: unpolluted areas east and west of Al-Mukalla harbor, a moderately polluted area in and around the harbor, and a highly polluted site within the main harbor (biofacies III).
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