Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

J Syvitski, CN Waters, J Day, JD Milliman… - … Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Growth in fundamental drivers—energy use, economic productivity and population—can
provide quantitative indications of the proposed boundary between the Holocene Epoch and …

Palaeontological signatures of the Anthropocene are distinct from those of previous epochs

M Williams, J Zalasiewicz, AD Barnosky… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The “Great Acceleration” of the mid-20th century provides the causal mechanism of
the Anthropocene, which has been proposed as a new epoch of geological time beginning …

Through the e DNA looking glass: Responses of fjord benthic foraminiferal communities to contrasting environmental conditions

I Brinkmann, M Schweizer, D Singer… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The health of coastal marine environments is severely declining with global changes.
Proxies, such as those based on microeukaryote communities, can record biodiversity and …

Alien and cryptogenic Foraminifera in the Mediterranean Sea: A revision of taxa as part of the EU 2020 Marine Strategy Framework Directive

R Stulpinaite… - Mediterranean …, 2020 - ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr
The human-mediated translocation of marine alien species beyond their natural ranges
started as early as people began navigating the sea and is of growing concern to nature …

Assessment of the ecological quality status of the Sepetiba Bay (SE Brazil): When metabarcoding meets morphology on foraminifera

FL Damasceno, MVA Martins, F Frontalini… - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, the region surrounding Sepetiba Bay (SB; SE Brazil) has become a hub of
intense urban expansion and economic exploitation in response to ore transport and …

Recent benthic foraminiferal distribution in the Elbe Estuary (North Sea, Germany): A response to environmental stressors

F Francescangeli, Y Milker, D Bunzel, H Thomas… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
For the past 200 years, estuarine environments experienced intense and rapid
environmental degradations due to human interventions. In addition, Global Changes are …

Hidden aliens: Application of digital PCR to track an exotic foraminifer across the Skagerrak (North Sea) correlates well with traditional morphospecies analysis

F Morin, MAZ Panova, M Schweizer… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The problem of invasive species is a well‐studied one, but knowledge of free‐living
unicellular eukaryotic invasive species is lacking. A potentially invasive foraminifer …

The invasive Asian benthic foraminifera Trochammina hadai Uchio, 1962: identification of a new local in Normandy (France) and a discussion on its putative …

JC Pavard, M Holzmann, M McGann… - Aquatic …, 2023 - archimer.ifremer.fr
the invasive benthic foraminifera trochammina hadai has been found for the first time in
europe along the coast of normandy. its native range of distribution is in asia (japan and …

Application of benthic foraminiferal indices to infer the ecological quality status in the Sepetiba Bay (SE Brazil)

MVA Martins, J Hohenegger, VMP Bouchet… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sepetiba Bay (SB, SE Brazil) is a highly anthropized and industrialized area
that has experienced severe environmental degradation in recent decades. This study …

Benthic foraminiferal response to sedimentary processes in a prodeltaic environment: the Gulf of Patti case study (Southeastern Tyrrhenian Sea)

L Di Bella, M Pierdomenico, C Bove, D Casalbore… - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Analyses of benthic foraminiferal assemblages were carried out on sediment samples
collected in the Gulf of Patti (NE Sicily, Tyrrhenian Sea), where high sedimentation rates in …