Author: Evelyn Elaine GaiserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Paleolimnological Reconstruction of Holocene Environments in Wetland Ponds of the Upper Atlantic Coastal Plain Using Siliceous Microfossils
Author: Evelyn Elaine GaiserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America
Author: Darold P. BatzerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471292586
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Wetlands are crucial ecosystems that help filter a great number of toxicants out of the earth's waters. They must be managed and occasionally even built from scratch, including all of the flora and fauna that grows there. Invertebrates play a key role in the wetland food chain. This comprehensive resource is the first dedicated solely to the ecology and management of invertebrates.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Molluscan Biostratigraphy of the Miocene, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America
Author: Lauck W. WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Paleolimnology IV
Author: H. LöfflerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400940475
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Paleoclimatic and Paleoceanographic Reconstruction of the Pleistocene- Holocene Through the Study of Planktonic Foraminifera of Two Sedimentary Cores Collected in North Atlantic Ocean, Southwest of the Azores Islands
Author: Alessandro BonfardeciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the global climatic system, the North Atlantic Ocean is considered as a highly sensitive region, which plays a crucial role in the Northern Hemisphere dynamics through the so-called Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) system, of which the Azores Front/Current System represents an important part. The main aim of the thesis is to reconstruct the complex hydrographic and climatic interactions in such a climatically-sensitive area during middle Pleistocene to Holocene through the analysis of the planktonic foraminifera from two cores collected in the OH1 segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) south-westward of the Azores archipelago during the Oceanograflu 2013 cruise. The manuscript is structured in three chapters presenting the major results and their interpretation (...).
Holocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Depositional Environments on the Sunda Shelf, Southwest South China Sea, Using a Multidisciplinary Approach
Author: Michael R TwarogPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The last glacial maximum, ca. 21,000 years ago, caused a fall in eustatic sea level of ca. 120 m below present. The low-gradient, shallow Sunda Shelf, Southeast Asia was subaerially exposed during this sea-level lowstand and experienced rising sea level thereafter. Sea level rose to a +1.3––5 m highstand ca. 6,500 cal yr BP, and then fell to modern sea level. The objective of this research is to characterize environmental change on the Sunda Shelf in response to the post-glacial rising eustatic sea level. To address this objective, six gravity cores were collected along a transect crossing the paleo-Chao Phraya incised river valley complex between peninsular Malaysia and southern Vietnam. Thirteen AMS radiocarbon samples, 130 bulk sediment magnetic susceptibility samples (BMS), 66 X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) samples, and 54 samples for the analysis of foraminiferal assemblages were used to characterize change in the depositional environments of the cored sediments. BMS, XRF, and foraminiferal analysis distinguish two main units. Unit 1 is found in the lower part of the cores and typically contains more terrestrial material than sediments further up-core as shown by higher BMS values, higher % Ti, % Al, % Fe, and lower indicators of marine influence, for example, lower % Ca, % planktonic foraminifera, and percentages of deeper water benthic foraminifera such as Heterolepa dutemplei. Unit 2 is characterized by a significant increase in % Ca, % Heterolepa dutemplei and % planktonic foraminifera ca. 6,500 cal yr BP. Unit 1 is consistent with shallower water depths and is part of a transgressive systems tract (TST, ca. 1 m thick) that terminates ca. 6,500 cal yr BP. Unit 2 represents the overlying highstand systems tract (HST, ca. 1 m thick) and is characterized by an increase in % planktonics, % Ca, and shifts in benthic foraminiferal assemblages, indicating deeper water conditions than the sediments below. This shift from a TST to a HST ca. 6500 cal yr BP is consistent with the Sunda Shelf sea-level record.
Limnogeology: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities
Author: Michael R. RosenPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030665763
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
This book honors the career of Professor Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch who was a pioneer and leader in the field of limnogeology since the 1980s. Her work was instrumental in guiding students and professionals in the field until her untimely death in 2016. This collection of chapters was written by her colleagues and students and recognize the important role that Professor Gierlowski-Kordesch had in advancing the field of limnogeology. The chapters show the breadth of her reach as these have been contributed from virtually every continent. This book will be a primary reference for scientists, professionals and graduate students who are interested in the latest advances in limnogeologic processes and basin descriptions in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and China. *Free supplementary material available online for chapters 3,11,12 and 13. Access by searching for the book on link.springer.com
Long-term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes
Author: Reinhard PienitzPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402021267
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Concerns about the effects of global climate change have focused attention on the vulnerability of circumpolar regions. This book offers a synthesis of the spectrum of techniques available for generating long-term environmental records from circumpolar lakes.
Wetlands
Author: Committee on Characterization of WetlandsPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309587220
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
"Wetlands" has become a hot word in the current environmental debate. But what does it signify? In 1991, proposed changes in the legal definities of wetlands stirred controversy and focused attention on the scientific and economic aspects of their management. This volume explores how to define wetlands. The committee--whose members were drawn from academia, government, business, and the environmental community--builds a rational, scientific basis for delineating wetlands in the landscape and offers recommendations for further action. Wetlands also discusses the diverse hydrological and ecological functions of wetlands, and makes recommendations concerning so-called controversial areas such as permafrost wetlands, riparian ecosystems, irregularly flooded sites, and agricultural wetlands. It presents criteria for identifying wetlands and explores the problems of applying those criteria when there are seasonal changes in water levels. This comprehensive and practical volume will be of interest to environmental scientists and advocates, hydrologists, policymakers, regulators, faculty, researchers, and students of environmental studies.