Impact of climatic changes on the benthic foraminiferal fauna in the Ionian Sea during the last 330,000 years

Paleoceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 447-458

  Schmiedl, Gerhard ^a   Hemleben, Christoph ^a   Keller, Jörg ^b   Segl, Monika ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benthic foraminifera; Climate change; Glacial interglacial cycle; Ionian Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Paleoceanography; Paleoecology; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY;

IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 0032457655     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98PA01864     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Abrantes, F., Diatom productivity peak and increased circulation during the latest Quaternary: Alboran Basin (western Mediterranean), Mar. Micropaleontol., 13, 79-96, 1988.
2. Alve, E., Benthic foraminiferal distribution and recolonization of formerly anoxic environments in Drammensfjord, southern Norway, Mar. Micropaleontol., 25, 169-186, 1995.
3. Amone, R., The temporal and spatial variability of chlorophyll in the western Mediterranean, in Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the Western Mediterranean Sea, Coastal Estuarine Stud., vol. 46, edited by P.E. La Violette, pp. 195-225, AGU, Washington, D.C., 1994.
4. Barmawidjaja, D.M., F.J. Jorissen, S. Puskaric, and G.J. Van der Zwann, Microhabitat selection by benthic foraminifera in the northern Adriatic Sea, J. Foraminiferal Res., 22, 297-317, 1992.
5. Bethoux, J.-P., Mediterranean sapropel formation, dynamic and climatic viewpoints, Oceanol. Acta, 16, 127-133, 1993.
6. Bigg, G.R., An ocean general circulation model view of the glacial Mediterranean thermohaline circulation, Paleoceanography, 9, 705-722, 1994.
7. Buzas, M.A., and T.G. Gibson, Species diversity: Benthonic foraminifera in western North Atlantic, Science, 163, 72-75, 1969.
8. Caralp, M.H., Late glacial to recent deep-sea benthic foraminifera from the northeastern Atlantic (Cadiz Gulf) and western Mediterranean (Alboran Sea): Paleoceanographic results, Afar. Micropaleontol., 13, 265-289, 1988.
9. Castradori, D., Calcareous nannofossils and the origin of eastern Mediterranean sapropels, Paleoceanography, 8, 459-471, 1993.
10. Cheddadi, R., and M. Rossignol-Strick, Eastern Mediterranean quaternary paleoclimates from pollen and isotope records of marine cores in the Nile cone area, Paleoceanography, 10, 291-300, 1995.
11. Cita, M.B., and M. Zocchi, Distribution patterns of benthic foraminifera on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, Oceanol. Acta, 1, 445-462, 1978.
12. Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project (COMAP) Members, Climatic changes of the last 18,000 years: Observations and model simulations, Science, 241, 1043-1052, 1988.
13. Corliss, B.H., Microhabitats of benthic foraminifera within deep-sea sediments, Nature, 314, 435-438, 1985.
14. Corliss, B.H., and S. Emerson, Distribution of Rose Bengal stained deep-sea benthic foraminifera from the Nova Scotian continental margin and Gulf of Maine, Deep Sea Res., Part A, 57, 381-400, 1990.
15. De Bovée, F., L.D. Guidi, and J. Soyer, Quantitative distribution of deep-sea meiobenthos in the northwestern Mediterranean, Cont. Shelf Res., 10, 1123-1145, 1990.