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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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Benthic foraminiferal assemblages in temperate coral-bearing deposits from the late pliocene
TL;DR: Foraminiferal and sedimentary analyses were performed on upper Pliocene exposures in the Almeria-Nijar basin of southeastern Spain to determine its depositional history.
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Foraminifer-based coral reef health assessment for southwestern atlantic offshore archipelagos, brazil
Catia F Barbosa,Beatrice Padovani Ferreira,José Carlos Sícoli Seoane,Patricia Oliveira-Silva,Ana Lídia Bertoldi Gaspar,Renato Campello Cordeiro,Abilio Soares-Gomes +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, live specimens and taphonomic features of Amphistegina spp., along with the FORAM Index, along with monitoring of the percentage of coral cover from 2002-2009, provided an assessment of coral reef health, which was mapped for both areas.
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Ecological response of shallow-marine foraminifera to early eocene warming in equatorial india
TL;DR: In this article, the carbon isotope (δ 13 C) excursions, the fingerprints of the Eocene hyperthermal events, have been established in the geological sections in India that lay across the equator in the early Eocene.
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The influence of productivity on abyssal foraminiferal biodiversity
TL;DR: Testing relationships between diversity and mean annual productivity based on carefully selected datasets from the NE Atlantic, Weddell Sea, and Equatorial and North Pacific revealed that diversity increased with increasing flux and density in both cases, with significantly lower diversity at the seasonal compared to the non-seasonal sites.
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Millennium-scale records of benthic foraminiferal communities from the central Great Barrier Reef reveal spatial differences and temporal consistency
Claire E. Reymond,Claire E. Reymond,George Roff,Allan R. Chivas,Jian-xin Zhao,John M. Pandolfi +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, sedimentary geochemistry and benthic foraminiferal assemblages of eight sediment cores collected from two coral reefs situated inside (Pandora) and outside (Havannah) an inner-shelf sediment prism formed during the Holocene.
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