附註:Published in print in 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-351) and indexes.
Introduction to modern Foraminifera / Barun K. Sen Gupta -- Systematics of modern Foraminifera / Barun K. Sen Gupta -- Foraminifera : a biological overview / Susan T. Goldstein -- Shell construction in modern calcareous Foraminifera / Hans Jørgen Hansen -- Quantitative methods of data analysis in foraminiferal ecology / William C. Parker and Anthony J. Arnold -- Biogeography of neritic benthic Foraminifera / Stephen J. Culver and Martin A. Buzas -- Biogeography of planktonic Foraminifera / Anthony J. Arnold and William C. Parker -- Symbiont-bearing Foraminifera / Pamela Hallock --Foraminifera in marginal marine environments / Barun K. Sen Gupta -- Benthic foraminiferal microhabitats below the sediment-water interface / Frans Jorissen -- Benthic Foraminifera and the flux of organic carbon to the seabed / Paul Loubere and Mohammad Fariduddin -- Foraminifera of oxygen-depleted environments / Joan M. Bernhard and Barun K. Sen Gupta -- Effects of marine pollution on benthic Foraminifera / Valentina Yanko, Anthony J. Arnold, and William C. Parker -- Stable oxygen and carbon isotopes in foraminiferal carbonate shells / Eelco J. Rohling and Steve Cooke -- Trace elements in foraminiferal calcite / David W. Lea -- Taphonomy and temporal resolution of foraminiferal assemblages / Ronald E. Martin.
摘要: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.
