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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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The devil lies in details: new insights into the behavioural ecology of intertidal foraminifera
TL;DR: It is shown that previous methods used to infer foraminiferal motion behaviour are likely to have systematically underestimated their speed and distance travelled by a factor ranging from 2 to 80.
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Comparison of rose bengal and celltracker green staining for identification of live salt-marsh foraminifera
TL;DR: Parametric statistical analysis of replicate data shows that there is no significant difference between the ability of the two techniques to discriminate between live and dead foraminifera.
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Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a drowned karst isolation basin (Lošinj Channel, NE Adriatic Sea)
Dea Brunović,Slobodan Miko,Ozren Hasan,George Papatheodorou,Nikolina Ilijanić,Stefano Miserocchi,Annamaria Correggiari,Maria Geraga +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the results of a comprehensive study of submerged paleoenvironments developed along the karstified eastern Adriatic coast during the Late Quaternary are presented.
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Microfossil record of the Holocene evolution of coastal wetlands in a tectonically active region of New Zealand
Bruce W. Hayward,Kate Wilson,Margaret S. Morley,Ursula Cochran,Hugh R. Grenfell,Ashwaq T Sabaa,Rhiannon Daymond-King +6 more
TL;DR: The shallow tidal Wairau coastal lagoons, New Zealand, are in a prime location for investigating the relative roles of tectonic and eustatic sea level on their palaeogeographic evolution as discussed by the authors.
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Holocene environmental change along the southern Cape coast of South Africa – Insights from the Eilandvlei sediment record spanning the last 8.9 kyr
Michael Wündsch,Torsten Haberzettl,Hayley C. Cawthra,Kelly L Kirsten,Lynne J. Quick,Matthias Zabel,Peter Frenzel,Annette Hahn,Jussi Baade,Gerhard Daut,Thomas Kasper,Michael E. Meadows,Michael E. Meadows,Roland Mäusbacher +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated Holocene sediments from Eilandvlei, a coastal lake located within the Wilderness embayment at the southern Cape coast of South Africa.
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