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Author:   Ronald E. Martin
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Volume:   15
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.940kg
ISBN:  

9780306462320

ISBN 10:   030646232
Pages:   481
Publication Date:   31 July 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I Baseline Studies of Foraminifera.- 1 When Does Environmental Variability Become Environmental Change? The Proxy Record of Benthic Foraminifera.- 2 Distribution Trends of Foraminiferal Assemblages in Paralic Environments: A Base for Using Foraminifera as Bioindicators.- II Water Quality in Modern Marine, Marginal Marine, and Freshwater Environments.- 3 Benthic Foraminifera as Bioindicators of Heavy Metal Pollution: A Case Study from the Goro Lagoon (Italy).- 4 Impact of Anthropogenic Environmental Change on Larger Foraminifera: Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati, South Pacific.- 5 Larger Foraminifera as Indicators of Coral-Reef Vitality.- 6 Ostracoda in Detection of Sewage Discharge on a Pacific Atoll.- 7 Ostracodes as Indicators of River Pollution in Northern Israel.- 8 Ostracoda as Indicators of Conditions and Dynamics of Water Ecosystems.- III Physiological Responses of Foraminifera to Pollution.- 9 Environmental Variation and Foraminiferal Test Abnormalities.- 10 Chemical Ecology of Foraminifera: Parameters of Health, Environmental Pathology, and Assessment of Environmental Quality.- IV Disturbance and Recovery Through Time.- 11 Use of Arcellacea (Thecamoebians) to Gauge Levels of Contamination and Remediation in Industrially Polluted Lakes.- 12 Sedimentary Diatoms and Chrysophytes as Indicators of Lakewater Quality in North America.- 13 Dinoflagellate Cysts as Indicators of Cultural Eutrophication and Industrial Pollution in Coastal Sediments.- 14 Environmental Stratigraphy: A Case Study Reconstructing Bottom Water Oxygen Conditions in Frierfjord, Norway, over the Past Five Centuries.- 15 Foraminifera of Storm-Generated Washover Fans: Implications for Determining Storm Frequency in Relation to Sediment Supply and Barrier Island Evolution, Folly Island, South Carolina.- 16 Benthic Foraminiferal Distributions in South Florida: Analogues to Historical Changes.- 17 Variation in Natural vs. Anthropogenic Eutrophication of Shelf Areas in Front of Major Rivers.- V Aquifers and Engineering.- 18 Establishing a Hydrostratigraphic Framework Using Palynology: An Example from the Savannah River Site, South Carolina.- 19 Construction of the Thames Barrier: An Application of Micropaleontology to the Solution of an Environmental Problem.

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