Modern ForaminiferaBarun K. Sen Gupta The Foraminifera constitute the most diverse group of shelled microorganisms in modern seas. This book, designed as an unusually wide-ranging, authoritative, graduate text, deals with the systematics, cell biology, chamber construction, biogeography, ecology, shell geochemistry, and taphonomy of these fascinating protists. The chapter authors are recognized experts in their fields. The main theme concerns large-scale and small-scale patterns of species distributions and the environmental processes that affect these patterns. Critical first principles, whether derived from biology, chemistry, or geology, are carefully explained. Audience: Apart from meeting the requirements of courses in foraminiferal ecology, the book will serve well as the major reference in a general course on Foraminifera or one on foraminiferal paleoecology. It will be of great value to graduate students, and also to professionals who are interested in using the sedimentary record of foraminiferal species to answer environmental, paleoenvironmental, or paleoceanographical questions. |
Contents
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A Biological Overview Susan T Goldstein | 37 |
Shell Construction in Modern Calcareous Foraminifera Hans Jørgen Hansen | 57 |
Quantitative Methods of Data Analysis in Foraminiferal Ecology William C Parker and Anthony J Arnold | 71 |
FEATURES OF DISTRIBUTION | 90 |
Benthic Foraminiferal Microhabitats below the SedimentWater Interface | 161 |
Benthic Foraminifera and the Flux of Organic Carbon to the Seabed 181 | 180 |
Foraminifera of OxygenDepleted Environments | 201 |
Effects of Marine Pollution on Benthic Foraminifera | 217 |
Stable Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes in Foraminiferal Carbonate Shells | 239 |
Trace Elements in Foraminiferal Calcite | 259 |
Taphonomy and Temporal Resolution of Foraminiferal Assemblages | 281 |
References | 299 |
Biogeography of Neritic Benthic Foraminifera Stephen J Culver and Martin A Buzas | 93 |
Biogeography of Planktonic Foraminifera Anthony J Arnold and William C Parker | 103 |
SymbiontBearing Foraminifera Pamela Hallock | 123 |
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