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Foraminifera

About: Foraminifera is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9437 publications have been published within this topic receiving 291011 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, robust regressions were established between relative sea-level (RSL) data and benthic foraminifera oxygen isotopic ratios from the North Atlantic and Equatorial Pacific Ocean over the last climatic cycle.

1,908 citations

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01 Nov 1986-Nature
TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examine the data and conclude that the temperature of the abyssal ocean has been an actively varying component of the climate system, and that there has been a discrepancy between the ice volume record that these records imply and that derived from the altitude of dated coral terraces around the world.
Abstract: From the time that detailed oxygen isotope records derived from foraminifera living in the constant-temperature environment of the abyssal ocean became available, there has been a discrepancy between the ice volume record that these records imply, and that derived from the altitude of dated coral terraces around the world. Here, we re-examine the data and conclude that the temperature of the abyssal ocean has been an actively varying component of the climate system.

1,621 citations

Book
01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: 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.

1,479 citations

Book
01 Jan 1991
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied population dynamics relationship between living and dead assemblages in the Atlantic seaboard of North America gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Atlantic SEABoard of South America Atlantic SEBoard of Europe and Africa Atlantic ocean Mediterranean Indian ocean western margin of the Pacific ocean eastern margin of Pacific ocean Pacific ocean Southern ocean Arctic ocean summary of modern distribution patterns and characteristics of assemblage palaeoecology.
Abstract: Life processes stable isotope studies population dynamics relationship between living and dead assemblages Atlantic seaboard of North America gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Atlantic seaboard of South America Atlantic seaboard of Europe and Africa Atlantic ocean Mediterranean Indian ocean western margin of the Pacific ocean eastern margin of the Pacific ocean Pacific ocean Southern ocean Arctic ocean summary of modern distribution patterns and characteristics of assemblages palaeoecology. Appendices: methods ecological data for selected genera faunal reference list.

1,124 citations

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01 Mar 1986-Nature
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative abundance behavior of two organic compounds, C37 alkenones over the upper 8 metres of a sediment core from the eastern equatorial Atlantic is inferred from a molecular record, ascribed to contributions from prymnesiophyte algae, which correlates well with variations in the δ18 signal for the calcareous skeletons of certain planktonic foraminifera.
Abstract: Variations in sea-surface temperatures over the past 500,000 years are inferred from the relative abundance behaviour of two organic compounds, C37 alkenones over the upper 8 metres of a sediment core from the eastern equatorial Atlantic. This molecular record, ascribed to contributions from prymnesiophyte algae, correlates well with the variations in the δ18 signal for the calcareous skeletons of certain planktonic foraminifera, thus providing the first demonstration of a new stratigraphical technique, which may be especially valuable where methods based on carbonate δ18 fail.

1,075 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023377
2022766
2021304
2020299
2019294
2018342