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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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Microbiotic signatures of the Anthropocene in marginal marine and freshwater palaeoenvironments
TL;DR: The term "Anthropocene" has been proposed to indicate a geological interval character- ized by global anthropogenic environmental change as mentioned in this paper, which can be defined micropalaeontologically by considering microfloras and microfaunas from nearshore waters through to paralic and freshwater aquatic milieux.
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Environmental changes during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum in Spitsbergen as reflected by benthic foraminifera
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of hypoxic and hyposaline conditions in a stratified water column, due to extreme warming with its accompanying intensified hydrologic cycle, were investigated in the Gilsonryggen Formation.
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Oceanographic changes through the last millennium off North Iceland: Temperature and salinity reconstructions based on foraminifera and stable isotopes
TL;DR: In this article, temperature and salinity reconstructions for two 1000-year high-resolution sedimentary records, located at the boundary between Atlantic and Arctic surface waters on the North Icelandic shelf, are based on transfer functions and oxygen isotopes for planktonic and benthic foraminifera.
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The chronostratigraphy of a Quaternary sequence at the distal part of the Nile littoral cell, Haifa Bay, Israel
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a detailed chronostratigraphic framework of the last 1 Ma of an eastern Mediterranean sequence (Haifa Bay, Israel) aimed to examine the relative roles of sea-level changes, climate and tectonics.
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Foraminifera as bioindicators of water quality: The FoRAM Index revisited.
TL;DR: The development and application of the FoRAM Index (FI), which provides a bioindicator metric for water quality that supports reef accretion, is reviewed and how it can be applied more effectively across different geographical regions is proposed.
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