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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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Effects of natural and human-induced hypoxia on coastal benthos
Lisa A. Levin,Werner Ekau,Andrew J. Gooday,Frans Jorissen,Jack J. Middelburg,S. W. A. Naqvi,Carlos Neira,Nancy N. Rabalais,Jing Zhang +8 more
TL;DR: Large areas of low oxygen persist seasonally or continuously beneath upwelling regions, associated with the upper parts of oxygen minimum zones (SE Pacific, W Africa, N Indian Ocean), and support a resident fauna that is adapted to survive and reproduce at oxygen concentrations.
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The FOBIMO (FOraminiferal BIo-MOnitoring) initiative—Towards a standardised protocol for soft-bottom benthic foraminiferal monitoring studies
Joachim Schönfeld,Elisabeth Alve,Emmanuelle Geslin,Frans Jorissen,Sergei Korsun,Silvia Spezzaferri +5 more
TL;DR: The aim is to standardise methodologies used in bio-monitoring only and not to limit the use of different methods in pure scientific studies, and to propose two types of recommendations about living (stained) benthic foraminiferal assemblages.
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Widespread occurrence of nitrate storage and denitrification among Foraminifera and Gromiida.
Elisa Piña-Ochoa,Signe Høgslund,Emmanuelle Geslin,Tomas Cedhagen,Niels Peter Revsbech,Lars Peter Nielsen,Magali Schweizer,Frans Jorissen,Søren Rysgaard,Nils Risgaard-Petersen +9 more
TL;DR: Benthic foraminifers inhabit a wide range of aquatic environments including open marine, brackish, and freshwater environments and Gromia, another taxon also belonging to Rhizaria, accumulate and respire nitrates through denitrification.
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The Carboniferous Period
TL;DR: Only the GSSPs for the Bashkirian, Visean and Tournaisian (base of the Mississippian) have been formalized, although the latter now has complications as mentioned in this paper.
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Monitoring in Coastal Environments Using Foraminifera and Thecamoebian Indicators: Conclusions and Final Remarks
TL;DR: A glossary and some basic taxonomy on all of the species used in this book have been provided, as an appendix, for those readers who want to go a step further as discussed by the authors.
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Les Foraminifères des marais salants de Salin-de-Giraud (Sud de la France) : milieu de vie et transport dans le salin, comparaison avec les micro-faunes marines
TL;DR: Foraminiferes dans le salin and dans la mer of the Giraud coast of France have been studied in this paper, where the authors present a study of the differences existant dans the composition of the microfaunes dans both le Salin and the mer.
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Correlations between test strength, morphology and habitat in some benthic foraminifera from the coast of Washington
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Chlamys opercularis (Linnaeus) as a mobile substrate for foraminifera
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Predators of foraminifera in the Indian River, Florida
Martin A. Buzas,Karen J. Carle +1 more
TL;DR: Gut contents of macrofauna specimens collected from inside an exclosure with 1mm openings, and from otiier locations in the Indian River estuary, Florida, were examined to determine what animals ingest foraminifera as mentioned in this paper.
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Main features of foraminiferal distribution reflecting estuarine hydrography in Oslo Fjord
Elisabeth Alve,Jenö Nagy +1 more
TL;DR: Foraminiferal assemblages have been analyzed in sediment surface samples located along three profiles covering the depth interval 1-120 m in Breidangen, a wide basin forming the middle portion of Oslo Fjord as mentioned in this paper.