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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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Paleobathymetric history of the Western Mediterranean Sea shelf during the latest glacial period and the Holocene: Quantitative reconstructions based on foraminiferal transfer functions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Weighted Averaging-partial least squares (WA-PLS) regression method for the development of benthic foraminifera-based transfer functions, and the Modern Analog Technique (MAT) to test the robustness of the models.
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Ocean acidification not likely to affect the survival and fitness of two temperate benthic foraminiferal species: results from culture experiments
TL;DR: Survival and fitness were not directly affected by elevated p CO2 and the concomitant decrease in seawater pH and calcite saturation states (Ωc), even when seawater was undersaturated with respect to calcite.
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Benthic foraminifera as indicators of habitat in a Mediterranean delta: implications for ecological and palaeoenvironmental studies
TL;DR: In this article, the ecology and modern distribution of benthic foraminiferal assemblages were analyzed in the Ebro Delta (NW Mediterranean Sea) and a transfer function for water depth using Weighted Average Partial Least Squares regression was successfully developed.
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Stratigraphic organization and predictability of mixed coarse-grained and fine-grained successions in an upper slope Pleistocene turbidite system of the Peri-Adriatic basin
TL;DR: The early Pleistocene clastic succession of the Peri-Adriatic basin, eastern central Italy, records the filling of a series of piggyback sub-basins that formed in response to the development of the eastward-verging Apennine fold-thrust belt.
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Foraminifer communities and environmental change in marginal marine sequences (Pliocene, Tuscany, Italy)
TL;DR: In this paper, foraminifer communities in marginal marine sediments of the Pliocene Valdelsa succession were collected in Tuscany, Italy, and multivariate techniques allowed to analyse the dataset and reconstruct gradients in species distributions.
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