Exploring preserved fossil dinoflagellate and haptophyte DNA signatures to infer ecological and environmental changes during deposition of sapropel S1 in the eastern Mediterranean

Paleoceanography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Boere, Arjan C ^a   Rijpstra, W Irene C ^a   De Lange, Gert J ^b   Malinverno, Elisa ^c   Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S ^a,b   Coolen, Marco J L ^a,d  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALKENONE; BIOMARKER; DEPOSITION; DINOFLAGELLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LIPID; MICROSCOPY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CORE; SURFACE WATER;

BLACK SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

DINOPHYCEAE; HAPTOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA;

EID: 79955045656     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010PA001948     Document Type: Article

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