Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the paleoceanographical proxies based on
deep-sea benthic foraminiferal assemblage characteristics, and presents the following three …

Foraminiferal research lies at the border between geology and biology. Benthic foraminifera
are a major component of marine communities, highly sensitive to environmental influences …

Deep-sea benthic foraminifera live in the largest habitat on Earth, constitute an important
part of its benthic biomass, and form diverse assemblages with common cosmopolitan …

Seafloor organic matter flux from marine primary productivity is quantified, and the range of
annual flux rates is calculated and compared to the counts of benthic foraminifera at 382 …

Geochemical analyses of the carbonate tests calcified by foraminifera have provided much
of the foundation for reconstructions of past ocean and climate conditions, and for …

The South China Sea is the largest low‐latitude marginal sea on the globe. For a long time,
researchers from various fields have been curious about the sea. For instance, geologists …

Surface sediment was sampled at two bathyal sites in the southwestern Gulf of Lions in the
western Mediterranean Sea in February and August 1997 to study the distribution and …

The deep ocean environment is disturbed by various processes, many of which involve
episodic inputs of organic matter. Some inputs (eg, phytodetritus at mid-high latitudes in the …

The reconstruction of ocean history employs a large variety of methods with origins in the
biological, chemical, and physical sciences, and uses modern statistical techniques for the …

We examine the quantitative composition of benthic foraminiferal assemblages of Rose
Bengal-stained surface samples from 37 stations in the Laptev Sea, and combine this data …