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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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History and development of methods in Recent benthic foraminiferal studies
TL;DR: Foraminifera have proven to be suitable for environmental monitoring because of their high levels of adaptation, small size and high abundance in Recent sediments and the fossil record as mentioned in this paper.
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Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblages and Biotopes in a Coastal Lake: The Case Study of Lake Varano (Southern Italy)
Fabrizio Frontalini,Giulia Margaritelli,Fabio Francescangeli,Roberto Rettori,Eric Armynot du Châtelet +4 more
TL;DR: The benthic foraminiferal assemblages in Lake Varano (southern Italy) have been investigated in detail and two main biotopes and five sub-biotopes that reflect different ecological and environmental conditions are recognized that characterize particular sub-environments.
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A latest Carboniferous warming spike recorded by a fusulinid-rich bioherm in Timor Leste: Implications for East Gondwana deglaciation
TL;DR: Foraminifera belonging to 17 genera are recorded from the Kulau bioherm, including Biseriamminidae, Biwaellides, Bradyinidae, Cornuspiridae, Lasiodiscidae, Palaeotextulariidae, Pseudotaxidae, Ozawainellidae, Schubertellidae, Schwagerinides, Staffellidae and Textrataxidae as mentioned in this paper.
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Benthic foraminifera response and geochemical characterization of the coastal environment surrounding the polluted industrial area of Portovesme (South-Western Sardinia, Italy)
TL;DR: Results from ESEM images allow recognition of a strong infestation on the calcareous foraminiferal tests by microbial communities developed in the polluted environment.
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Assessing the effect of mercury pollution on cultured benthic foraminifera community using morphological and eDNA metabarcoding approaches.
Fabrizio Frontalini,Mattia Greco,Letizia Di Bella,Franck Lejzerowicz,Emanuela Reo,Antonio Caruso,Claudia Cosentino,Antonella Maccotta,Giovanna Scopelliti,Maria Pia Nardelli,Maria Teresa Losada,Eric Armynot du Châtelet,Rodolfo Coccioni,Jan Pawlowski +13 more
TL;DR: This study further supports foraminiferal metabarcoding as a complementary and/or alternative method to standard biomonitoring program based on the morphological identification of species communities and among these taxa that are typically overlooked in morphological studies the authors found potential bioindicators of Hg pollution.
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