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Distribution Trends of Foraminiferal Assemblages in Paralic Environments

A Base for Using Foraminifera as Bioindicators

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Environmental Micropaleontology

Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology ((TGBI,volume 15))

Abstract

Increasing pollution by industrial, agricultural, and other anthropogenic chemicals makes it ever more necessary to develop a thorough water management system. Chemical analyses are often used, but they are expensive and can measure only a fraction of the contaminants present at a given time. Such analyses may also require continuous monitoring in rapidly changing environments such as estuaries and coastal lagoons (paralic environments). Moreover, they reveal nothing about the adverse effects of contaminants that are readily taken up into the tissues of resident organisms (Walker and Livingstone, 1992) and that induce biological responses at all levels of biological organization, from the molecular to the ecosystem level (Cairns and McCormick, 1992). Therefore, the need to assess the impact of pollution leads to the study and development of biomarkers and bioindicators that detect the presence of both known and unknown contaminants (McCarty and Shugart, 1990; see also in this volume Geslin et al., Ch. 9; Bresler and Hombach, Ch. 10).

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  1. Laboratoire de Géologie, Equipe EA 2644, Faculté des Sciences, Université d’Angers, Angers Cedex, 49045, France

    Jean-Pierre Debenay, Fabrice Redois & Emmanuelle Geslin

  2. Laboratoire d’Étude des Bio-Indicateurs Marins (LÉBIM), Ker Chalon, Ile d’Yeu, 85350, France

    Jean-Pierre Debenay, Fabrice Redois & Emmanuelle Geslin

  3. Laboratoire de Géologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Nantes, 44072, Nantes Cedex 3, France

    Jean-Jacques Guillou

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Debenay, JP., Guillou, JJ., Redois, F., Geslin, E. (2000). Distribution Trends of Foraminiferal Assemblages in Paralic Environments. 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_3

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