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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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Vertical distributions and stable isotopic compositions of live (stained) benthic foraminifera from the North Carolina and California continental margins
TL;DR: The vertical distributions of live (Rose Bengal stained) benthic foraminifera were determined in Soutar box cores from six sites on the North Carolina continental margin (337-1477 m) and three sites in the California continental margin this paper.
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Tolerance of Infaunal Benthic Foraminifera for Low and High Oxygen Concentrations.
Leon Moodley,Christoph Hess +1 more
TL;DR: Chambers formed in the laboratory under dysaerobic conditions have a significantly higher porosity than do chambers constructed in well oxygenated water, indicating that they are capable of facultative anaerobic metabolism.
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Postmortem vital staining in benthic foraminifera; duration and importance in population and distributional studies
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Ecological significance of benthic foraminifera: 13C labelling experiments
Leon Moodley,Henricus T. S. Boschker,Jack J. Middelburg,R. Pel,Peter M. J. Herman,E.M.G.T. de Deckere,Carlo H. R. Heip +6 more
TL;DR: The ability of foraminifera in taking up freshly deposited algal carbon in intertidal estuarine sediments and the significant contribution of foraminaifera to meiobenthic abundance and biomass suggest that foraminifiera play an important role in the carbon cycle in these sediments.
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Determining relative sea-level change from salt-marsh foraminifera and plant zones on the coast of Maine, U.S.A.
TL;DR: The modern relation of foraminifera and plants to tidal levels is determined in Maine salt marshes for application in Holocene sea-level studies as discussed by the authors, and the modern distribution of salt-marsh foraminiferal assemblages and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14 C ages on plant fragments tightly constrain a relative sea level chronology for Machiasport.