Ecology and Applications of Benthic

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.

Introduction
Objectives and strategy
Taxonomic scope of foraminifera
Historical development of ecological studies
Major developments over the past decade
The future
Methods
Planning general field surveys
Planning surveys to address a specific question
Types of sampler, taking and handling samples
Collecting live individuals
Distinguishing live from dead foraminifera
Preservation and fixing
Processing modern sediments for foraminifera
Foraminiferal separation using trichloroethylene
Splitting samples
Census data, standing crop and biomass
Analysis of field data
Multivariate analysis
Designing and running experiments in field and laboratory
Essential data in publications
Selection of data used in this book
Aspects of Biology and Basic Ecology
Introduction
Biology
Basic ecology
Marginal Marine Environments
Introduction
Marsh and mangal/mangrove
Intertidal-subtidal brackish lagoons and estuaries
Deltas
Fjords
Isolation basins
General attributes of faunas
Summary of lagoons, estuaries, deltas and fjords
Shelf Seas
Introduction
Europe and Africa
Atlantic North America
Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean
S America
Pacific Americas
West Pacific
Australia
New Zealand
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
Southern Ocean
Stable isotopes
Summary
Carbonate Environments
Introduction
Warm water carbonate environments
Cool-temperature carbonates
Distinction between warm and cool-temperature carbonate shelf faunas
Summary
Deep Sea
Introduction
Foraminifera
Summary and conclusions
Summary of Living Distributions
Introduction
Major new findings
Response of foraminifera to environmental factors
Micro distribution patterns
Interdependent controls on micro distributions
Time series datasets and environmental variability
Large scale distribution patterns
Species diversity
Colonisation/recolonisation
The species pool
Biogeography
Standing crop and biomass
Role of benthic foraminifera in modern ecosystems
Comments on other topics
Final conclusions
Taphonomic Processes: Formation of Dead and Fossil Assemblages
Introduction
Life processes influencing the contribution of tests to the sediment
Postmortem processes affecting the preservation of foraminifera
Summary
Applications
Introduction
The present as a key to the past
Sequence stratigraphy - biostratigraphy
Palaeoecology
Palaeoceanography
Environmental monitoring
Deformed tests
Summary and conclusions
Glossary
Ecological data
References
Web appendices
References discussing taxonomy, dead or total assemblages
Faunal reference list
Living stained foraminiferal data tables
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