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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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Late Early Miocene palaeoenvironmental changes in the North Alpine Foreland Basin
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a new and comprehensive data set, derived from 13 boreholes and 491 core samples from the Molasse Basin of southwest Germany, that provides a significantly better understanding of late Early Miocene palaeoenvironments in the NAFB.
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Benthic foraminiferal response to the removal of aquaculture fish cages in the Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat, Red Sea
Shai Oron,Dror L. Angel,Beverly Goodman-Tchernov,Gily Merkado,Moshe Kiflawi,Sigal Abramovich +5 more
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the inflated involute and semi-involute forms are a morphological trait characteristic of the pioneer assemblages colonizing the area after its recovery from fish cages eutrophication, which was an important factor enabling epiphytic foraminifera to colonize the previously impacted sediments.
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Diversity, taphonomy and behavior of encrusting foraminifera on experimental shells deployed along a shelf-to-slope bathymetric gradient, Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas
TL;DR: In this article, foraminifera that settled on experimental arrays deployed for 2 years in shelf, shelf edge and slope environments off the carbonate platform of Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas, were found to occur in four environmental-indicator guilds, each with common and unique encrusting species.
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The genetic diversity, morphology, biogeography, and taxonomic designations of Ammonia (Foraminifera) in the Northeast Atlantic
Clare Bird,Magali Schweizer,Magali Schweizer,Angela Roberts,William E. N. Austin,William E. N. Austin,Karen Luise Knudsen,Katharine Evans,Helena L. Filipsson,Martin Sayer,Emmanuelle Geslin,Kate F. Darling,Kate F. Darling +12 more
TL;DR: The genetic diversity, morphology and biogeography of Ammonia specimens was investigated across the Northeast (NE) Atlantic margins, to enhance the regional (palaeo)ecological studies based on this genus and identify seven genetic types and subtypes inhabiting the NE Atlantic margins.
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Indicative value of benthic foraminifera for biomonitoring: Assignment to ecological groups of sensitivity to total organic carbon of species from European intertidal areas and transitional waters.
Vincent M.P. Bouchet,Fabrizio Frontalini,Fabio Francescangeli,Pierre-Guy Sauriau,Emmanuelle Geslin,Maria Virgínia Alves Martins,Ahuva Almogi-Labin,Simona Avnaim-Katav,Letizia Di Bella,Alejandro Cearreta,Rodolfo Coccioni,Ashleigh Costelloe,Margarita D. Dimiza,Luciana Ferraro,Kristin Haynert,Michael Martínez-Colón,Romana Melis,Magali Schweizer,Maria Triantaphyllou,Akira Tsujimoto,Brent G. Wilson,Eric Armynot du Châtelet +21 more
TL;DR: In this article, benthic foraminifera from intertidal and transitional waters from the English Channel/European Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean Sea were assigned to five ecological groups using the weighted-averaging optimum with respect to TOC of each species.
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