Decoding sea surface and paleoclimate conditions in the eastern Mediterranean over the Tortonian-Messinian Transition

G Kontakiotis, E Besiou, A Antonarakou… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
New sedimentological, micropaleontological and geochemical data from the Upper Miocene
pre-evaporitic sedimentary sequence of the Faneromeni section (Crete Island, eastern …

Ecological constraints of plankton bio-indicators for water column stratification and productivity: a case study of the Holocene North Aegean sedimentary record

C Giamali, G Kontakiotis, A Antonarakou… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study presents novel findings on the drivers of the calcitic planktonic foraminiferal and
aragonitic pteropod Holocene assemblages of the North Aegean Trough (northeastern …

Multiproxy ecosystem response of abrupt Holocene climatic changes in the northeastern Mediterranean sedimentary archive and hydrologic regime

C Giamali, E Koskeridou, A Antonarakou… - Quaternary …, 2019 - cambridge.org
Aspects of paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic evolution of the north Aegean Sea through
the Holocene are revealed by the study of quantitative variations in planktonic foraminiferal …

Key environmental factors controlling planktonic foraminiferal and pteropod community's response to Late Quaternary hydroclimate changes in the South Aegean Sea …

C Giamali, G Kontakiotis, E Koskeridou… - Journal of Marine …, 2020 - mdpi.com
A multidisciplinary study was conducted in order to investigate the environmental factors
affecting the planktonic foraminiferal and pteropod communities of the south Aegean Sea …

Assessing the effect of Amphistegina lobifera invasion on infralittoral benthic foraminiferal assemblages in the Sicily Channel (Central Mediterranean)

R Guastella, J Evans, N Mancin, A Caruso… - Marine Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article documents, through a quantitative approach, the negative effect of the highly
invasive species Amphistegina lobifera Larsen, 1976 on native benthic foraminiferal …

Latitudinal differentiation among modern planktonic foraminiferal populations of central Mediterranean: Species–specific distribution patterns and size variability

G Kontakiotis, E Efstathiou, SD Zarkogiannis… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Studies of the spatial distribution and size of modern planktonic foraminifera are still lacking
in the Mediterranean Sea. In this study, 17 core-top sediments collected from a north-south …

High resolution paleo-environmental changes during the Sapropel 1 in the North Ionian Sea, central Mediterranean

H Checa, G Margaritelli, LD Pena, J Frigola… - The …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
High-resolution paleoceanographic reconstruction of surface water properties during the
most recent Sapropel event (S1) has been carried out by means of quantitative analyses of …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of environmental conditions on the benthic foraminiferal distribution from the recent sediments of Lake Bardawil, Eastern Mediterranean Sea …

W El-Menhawey, A Badawi, KS Sinoussy - The Egyptian Journal of Aquatic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lake Bardawil, similar to the other Mediterranean Egyptian lakes, is a unique wetland,
separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a narrow sandbar with very restricted water …

Suborbital hydrological variability inferred from coupled benthic and planktic foraminiferal‐based proxies in the southeastern Mediterranean during the last 19 ka

S Le Houedec, M Mojtahid, E Bicchi… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present a high‐resolution study covering the past 19 ka from the southeastern
Mediterranean Sea, based on benthic foraminiferal faunas and their stable oxygen and …

Biostratigraphically constrained age assessment and paleoenvironments of the early Miocene syn-rift deposits of the Gulf of Suez eastern margin, Egypt

R Badr, AN El-Barkooky, AM El-Araby… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2024 - Elsevier
The absence or rarity of some global marker taxa in the semi-restricted Suez rift basin has
led to uncertainty with respect to the age of the early syn-rift deposits. To tackle this issue …