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This chapter summarizes the first attempts to use dinoflagellate cysts as indicators of eutrophication and industrial pollution. This is new work, published just recently, and though so far based on only a few studies it shows a clear potential for development as a robust working method for environmental science. In contrast to almost all other microfossil groups included in this book, the cysts used here are acid-resistant and therefore not subject to the dissolution that sometimes affects the mineralized shells of foraminifers and diatoms. Furthermore, they provide environmental signals from the first level of the food web—primary production.
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Dale, B. (2000). Dinoflagellate Cysts as Indicators of Cultural Eutrophication and Industrial Pollution in Coastal Sediments. In: Martin, R.E. (eds) Environmental Micropaleontology. Topics in Geobiology, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4167-7_14
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