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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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Opportunistic features of the foraminifer Stainforthia fusiformis (Williamson): evidence from Frierfjord, Norway
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used short sediment cores (50 m) collected from Frierfjord to investigate the opportunistic r-strategist of Stainforthia fusiformis.
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Temporal variability in vertical distributions of live (stained) intertidal foraminifera, southern england
Elisabeth Alve,John W. Murray +1 more
TL;DR: The large natural seasonal variability demonstrated here suggests that caution should be taken in assessing the significance of diversity changes when based on occasional sampling only, and species diversity is one of the principal univariate methods used to assess both natural variability and possible human impacts.
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Ecological evidence from live–dead comparisons of benthic foraminiferal faunas off Cape Blanc (Northwest Africa)
Frans Jorissen,Ingrid Wittling +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of live and dead benthic foraminiferal faunas in a five-station sample transect off Cape Blanc suggests that interspecific differences in living/dead (L/D) ratios are to a large extent determined by seasonal differences in reproduction.
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Seasonal spillover and varve formation in the Santa Barbara Basin, California
Reconstructing ocean history ; a window into the future
Fatima F Abrantes,Alan C. Mix +1 more
TL;DR: Zahn et al. as discussed by the authors studied the role of the ocean in abrupt changes in the history of the world and found that the ocean can respond to major paleoceanographic changes.