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MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 3-4, Pages 93-123Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8398(01)00043-3
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benthic foraminifera; biotopes; nutrients; Adriatic Sea; continental shelf
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Off the Po Delta in the northern Adriatic, three different foraminiferal associations were identified in the fraction > 0.125 mm of 25 sediment samples. The first association concerns sample stations between depths of 5 and 13.5 m in the shallow, nutrient-rich belt and is characterised by dominant Ammonia beccarii. The second occupies the 29.5-38.5-m-deep. nutrient-rich zone of clay-rich sediment, where inputs from the Po are concentrated. and is dominated by Nonionella opima. The third association, in the 21-46-m-deep and nutrient-poor zone, is dominated by Textularia agglutinans. The same distribution of communities was obtained using total associations (living and dead specimens) and biocenosis (stained individuals). The good correspondence with the foraminiferal distributions described in the past indicates that, in spite of the occurrence of anoxic and dysoxic events, the environmental state in the northern Adriatic may be considered stable. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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