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Monitoring in Coastal Environments Using Foraminifera
and Thecamoebian Indicators
Monitoring in Coastal Environments Using Foraminifera and Thecamoebian Indicators
addresses one of the fundamental problems for environmental assessment – how to
characterize the state of benthic environments cost effectively in regard to both contem-
porary and historical times. Foraminifera and thecamoebians facilitate biological char-
acterization of a variety of freshwater and coastal marine environments; they react
quickly to environmental stress, either natural or anthropogenic. Because of their small
size, they occur in large numbers in small-diameter core samples, and since they have a
hard shell, they yield fossil assemblages that can be used as proxies to reconstruct past
environmental conditions. This book presents prehensive overview of sampling
and sample processing methods as well as many examples in which these methods have
been applied – from pollution impact studies to earthquake history investigations.
This book is the first of its kind to prehensively specific methodolo-
gies for the application of foraminifera and thecamoebians in freshwater and marine
environmental assessment. It introduces the topic to nonspecialists with a simple
description of these two groups of anisms and then moves on to detailed
descriptions of specific methods and techniques. Case studies are presented to illus-
trate how these techniques are applied. The appendix includes a glossary of terms and
a taxonomic description of all species mentioned in the book.
The main audience for this book will be resource managers and consultants in the
public and private sectors who are working on coastal environmental problems. It will
also serve as supplementary text for graduate students in many courses that deal with
environmental monitoring, micropaleontology, or marine ecology, which are typically
found in departments of environmental sci