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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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Proton pumping accompanies calcification in foraminifera.
Takashi Toyofuku,Miki Matsuo,Lennart J. de Nooijer,Yukiko Nagai,Sachiko Kawada,Kazuhiko Fujita,Gert-Jan Reichart,Hidetaka Nomaki,Masashi Tsuchiya,Hide Sakaguchi,Hiroshi Kitazato +10 more
TL;DR: It is shown that calcification is driven by rapid transformation of bicarbonate into carbonate inside the cytoplasm, achieved by active outward proton pumping, and that a V-type H+ ATPase is responsible for the proton flux and thereby calcification.
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The last reconnection of the Marmara Sea (Turkey) to the World Ocean: A paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic perspective
Cecilia M. G. McHugh,Cecilia M. G. McHugh,Damayanti Gurung,Liviu Giosan,William B. F. Ryan,Yossi Mart,Ummuhan Sancar,Lloyd H. Burckle,M. Namık Çağatay +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a high-resolution record of the lacustrine to marine transition of Marmara Sea in order to reconstruct regional and global climatic events at a millennial scale.
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Comparative analysis of epiphytic foraminifera in sediments colonized by seagrass posidonia oceanica and invasive macroalgae caulerpa spp.
TL;DR: Differences among the foraminiferal assemblages in sediments colonized by different phytal substrates occur prior to taphonomic and dissolution processes and may be applicable to paleoecological interpretations.
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The sedimentary record of the 2005 hurricane season from the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines
TL;DR: Foraminiferal analyses revealed a virtual absence of tests within the storm surge sediments, whereas abundant agglutinated foraminifera were found in the underlying salt marsh deposits as discussed by the authors.
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Biodiversity of living benthic foraminifera: How many species are there?
TL;DR: In ecological studies involving the analysis of living (stained) individual tests, to date ∼ 2140 species of benthic foraminifera have been recorded, of these 602 species are agglutinated, 341 porcelaneous and 1197 hyaline.
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