Response of benthic foraminifera Rosalina leei to different temperature and salinity, under laboratory culture experiment

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 699-704

  Nigam, R ^a   Kurtarkar, Sujata R ^a   Saraswat, R ^a,b   Linshy, V N ^a   Rana, S S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Benthic foraminifera; Ecology; Laboratory culture experiment; Rosalina leei; Salinity; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; LABORATORY METHOD; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SALINITY; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TYPE SPECIMEN; WATER TEMPERATURE;

FORAMINIFERA; ROSALINA;

EID: 46049086767     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315408001197     Document Type: Article

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