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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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Seasonal oxygen depletion in continental-shelf waters of Louisiana: Historical record of benthic foraminifers
TL;DR: In an attempt to read the historical record of this shelf hypoxia during the past two centuries, the authors compared the stratigraphic signals of benthic foraminifera (as reflected in a relative-dominance index for two common species of Ammonia and Elphidium ) in 210 Pb-dated cores, and found evidence of an overall rise in oxygen stress (in intensity or duration), especially in the past 100 yr.
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Effect of organic carbon flux and dissolved oxygen on the benthic foraminiferal oxygen index (BFOI)
TL;DR: The BFOI is a useful indicator extracted from benthic foraminiferal assemblages for estimating the condition of dissolved oxygen in Cretaceous and Cenozoic oceans.
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Seasonal and interannual variability of benthic foraminiferal faunas at 550 m depth in the Bay of Biscay
TL;DR: In this paper, live benthic foraminiferal faunas were sampled 10 times between October 1997 and April 2000 at a 550m depth open-slope station in the Bay of Biscay.
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Cenozoic deep-sea benthic foraminifers: Tracers for changes in oceanic productivity?
Ellen Thomas,Andrew J. Gooday +1 more
TL;DR: For example, this article found that the species-richness gradient and increase in abundance of phytodetritus-exploiting species resulted largely from the onset of a more unpredictable and seasonally fluctuating food supply, especially at high latitudes.
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Living vs. total foraminiferal populations; their relative usefulness in paleoecology
David B. Scott,Franco S. Medioli +1 more
TL;DR: Investigation of living and total assemblages over a three year period in a Nova Scotia salt marsh indicates that consideration of total associations more accurately depicts modern environments and is, therefore, more useful to most paleoenvironmental studies.