Approaches to Study Living Foraminifera: Collection, Maintenance and Experimentation

By Hiroshi Kitazato

Book Overview

The Propagule Method as an Experimental Tool in Foraminiferal Ecology.- The Natural Laboratory of Algal Symbiont-bearing benthic Foraminifera: Studying Individual Growth and Population Dynamics in the Sublittoral.- Methods for Estimating Individual Growth of Foraminifera Based on Chamber Volumes.- Changing Investigation Perspectives: Methods and Applications of Computed Tomography on Larger Benthic Foraminifera.- Protein Analysis in Large Benthic Foraminifera.- Molecular Assessment of Benthic Foraminiferal Diversity.- FLEC-TEM: Using Microscopy to Correlate Ultrastructure with Life Position of Infaunal Foraminifera.- Response of Shallow Water Benthic Foraminifera to a 13C-Labeled Food Pulse in the Laboratory.- How Has Foraminiferal Genetic Diversity Developed? A Case Study of Planoglabratella Opercularis and the Species Concept Inferred from Its Ecology, Distribution, Genetics, and Breeding Behavior.- Survival, Reproduction and Calcification of Three Benthic Foraminiferal Species in Response to Experimentally Induced Hypoxia.- Living Foraminifera in a Brazilian Subtropical Coastal Environment (Flamengo Inlet, Ubatuba, S?o Paulo State - Brazil).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 4431563326
• ISBN13: 9784431563327
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"