1st Edition

Ecology and Palaeoecology of Benthic Foraminifera

By John W. Murray Copyright 1991
    408 Pages
    by Routledge

    408 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is an important and authoritative review of foraminiferal ecology, the first for over a decade. Professor Murray relates ecological data on living forms of foraminifera to the palaeoecology of fossil species, and defines in detail areas of global distribution.

    1: Introduction; 2: Life processes; 3: Stable isotope studies; 4: Population dynamics; 5: Relationship between living and dead assemblages; 6: Atlantic seaboard of North America; 7: Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea; 8: Atlantic seaboard of South America; 9: Atlantic seaboard of Europe and Africa; 10: Atlantic Ocean – summary and comparison; 11: The Mediterranean; 12: Indian Ocean; 13: Western margin of the Pacific Ocean; 14: Eastern margin of the Pacific Ocean; 15: Pacific Ocean; 16: Southern Ocean; 17: Arctic Ocean; 18: Summary of modern distribution patterns and characteristics of assemblages; 19: Palaeoecology

    Biography

    John W. Murray