Modern ForaminiferaBarun K. Sen Gupta The Foraminifera constitute the most diverse group of shelledmicroorganisms in modern seas. This book, designed as an unusuallywide-ranging, authoritative, graduate text, deals with thesystematics, cell biology, chamber construction, biogeography, ecology, shell geochemistry, and taphonomy of these fascinatingprotists. The chapter authors are recognized experts in their fields.The main theme concerns large-scale and small-scale patterns ofspecies distributions and the environmental processes that affectthese patterns. Critical first principles, whether derived frombiology, chemistry, or geology, are carefully explained."Audience: " Apart from meeting the requirements of courses inforaminiferal ecology, the book will serve well as the major referencein a general course on Foraminifera or one on foraminiferalpaleoecology. It will be of great value to graduate students, and alsoto professionals who are interested in using the sedimentary record offoraminiferal species to answer environmental, paleoenvironmental, orpaleoceanographical questions. |
Contents
Introduction to modern Foraminifera | 3 |
Systematics of modern Foraminifera | 7 |
Foraminifera A biological overview | 37 |
Shell construction in modern calcareous Foraminifera | 57 |
Quantitative methods of data analysis in foraminiferal ecology | 71 |
FEATURES OF DISTRIBUTION | 91 |
Biogeography of neritic benthic Foraminifera | 93 |
Biogeography of planktonic Foraminifera | 103 |
Foraminifera of oxygendepleted environments | 201 |
Effects of marine pollution on benthic Foraminifera | 217 |
GEOCHEMISTRY OF SHELLS | 237 |
Stable oxygen and carbon isotopes in foraminiferal carbonate shells | 239 |
Trace elements in foraminiferal calcite | 259 |
PRESERVATION OF RECORD | 279 |
Taphonomy and temporal resolution of foraminiferal assemblages | 281 |
REFERENCES | 299 |
Symbiontbearing Foraminifera | 123 |
Foraminifera in marginal marine environments | 141 |
Benthic foraminiferal microhabitats below the sedimentwater interface | 161 |
Benthic Foraminifera and the flux of organic carbon to the seabed | 181 |
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Common terms and phrases
abundance agglutinated algal Allogromiida Alve Ammonia Amphistegina anoxia anoxic aperture aragonitic areas Atlantic Basin benthic Foraminifera benthos Berger Bernhard biogeographic biological bioturbation biserial Boltovskoy Boyle Buzas calcareous calcite chamber arrangement coiled concentrations Corliss Culver Cushman cycle deep water deep-sea depletion distribution ecology Elphidium environmental environments Examples of extant extant families factors fauna foraminifer foraminifer shells foraminiferal assemblages Foraminiferal Research foraminiferal species fossil gametes gamonts global Globigerinida Goldstein Gooday gradient groups Gulf of Mexico Gupta habitats Hallock Hemleben infaunal interiomarginal isotopic Journal of Foraminiferal Loeblich and Tappan Loubere marine Marine Micropaleontology marsh ments microhabitat Micropaleontology miliolid Miliolida minifera mixed layer morphology nutrient ocean organic matter oxygen Pacific patterns photosynthesis planispiral planktonic planktonic Foraminifera pollution pore provinces proxies pseudopodia Rotaliida salinity samples seawater sedi sediment shallow shelf specimens studies Superfamily surface symbionts taxa temperature tion trace element trochospiral variables wall water depth Yanko zone
References to this book
Introduction to Veterinary and Comparative Forensic Medicine John E. Cooper,Margaret E. Cooper No preview available - 2008 |