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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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Environmental changes in the declining Middle Miocene Badenian evaporite basin of the Ukrainian Carpathian Foredeep (Kudryntsi section)
Danuta Peryt,Tadeusz Marek Peryt +1 more
TL;DR: The Kudryntsi section in West Ukraine documents a major environmental change from hypersaline to marine conditions during the Middle Miocene as mentioned in this paper, but very few specimens of foraminifers in samples of the siliciclastic series (4 m thick, with limestone intercalations) which occurs above the gypsum and below the transgressive deposits.
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The influence of aquaculture on modern foraminifera and sediments in the setiu estuary and lagoon, terengganu, malaysia: a temporal investigation
Hanna M. Thornberg,Stephen J. Culver,D. Reide Corbett,David J. Mallinson,Martin A. Buzas,Noor Azhar Mohd Shazili +5 more
TL;DR: Foraminifera, grain size, and carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios and abundances were analyzed in surface-sediment samples collected from three floating fish-cage complexes to address how aquaculture has influenced the Setiu estuary and lagoon of northeast peninsular Malaysia as mentioned in this paper.
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Multiproxy approach for Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstructions from microorganisms (testate amoebae and foraminifera) and sediment analyses: The infilling of the Loire Valley in Nantes (France):
Maxence Delaine,Maxence Delaine,Eric Armynot du Châtelet,Viviane Bout-Roumazeilles,Evelyne Goubert,Valérie Le Cadre,Philippe Recourt,Alain Trentesaux,Rémy Arthuis +8 more
TL;DR: Foraminifera and testate amoebae were jointly used with sediment characteristics (sediment size, calcium carbonate, C, H, N and S proportions, and clay mineralogy) to reconstruct the Holocene sediment infilling of the Loire estuary (Nantes, France) as discussed by the authors.
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Marine and nonmarine deposition in a long-term low-accommodation setting: An example from the middle Pleistocene Qm2 unit, eastern central Italy
TL;DR: In this article, a large-scale stratigraphic organization of mid-Pleistocene strata (Qm2 Unit) exposed near the town of Ortona, eastern central Italy, has been defined through an integrated outcrop and subsurface dataset, and record sedimentation within a long-term low-accommodation setting.
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Ecological quality status of the NE sector of the Guanabara Bay (Brazil): A case of living benthic foraminiferal resilience.
Maria Virgínia Alves Martins,Maria Virgínia Alves Martins,Johann Hohenegger,Michael Martínez-Colón,Fabrizio Frontalini,Sérgio Bergamashi,Lazaro Laut,Pierre Belart,Michel Michaelovitch de Mahiques,Egberto Pereira,René Rodrigues,Denise Terroso,Paulo Miranda,Mauro Cesar Geraldes,Hélio Heringer Villena,Tadeu Dos Reis,Orangel Antonio Aguilera Socorro,Silvia Helena de Mello e Sousa,Cintia Yamashita,Fernando Rocha +19 more
TL;DR: Factors such as the increase of organic matter contents and OMPTEs and, in particular of Zn, Cd and Pb, the oxygen depletion and the presence of oil, altogether contribute to a marked reduction in the abundance and diversity of foraminifera.
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