A History Of Life

1. San Miniato and the history of Earth Science
(Paleontological sites/Neogene Europe)

...iocene Milankovitch-type sea level cycles , lie several shell beds of different nature (Benvenuti et al 2007 ). Collectors of fossil marine molluscs were active here since the Renaissance and in the s...

2. Lower Paleozoic exceptional biota
(Past ecosystems/Shoreface)

...ionally well-preserved fossil biotas from marginal marine sediments, one of Silurian (von Bitter et al. 2007), the other of late Ordovician age (Young et al. 2007), both from Canada. This findings are...

3. Shell beds at ravinement surfaces
(Taphonomy/Shell beds and sequence stratigraphy)

...n of small-scale (elementary) depositional sequences within the Ponte a Elsa Synthem (Benvenuti et al. 2007 ). The succession at Fiano, south of Montespertoli (Firenze) bears complex shell beds at ...

4. From seagrass to mangrove, and back
(Past ecosystems/Mangrove forest)

...g high tides, taking advantage of the abundant zooplankton, to come back at low tides (Saintilan et al. 2007). Mangrove habitat with suitable water conditions are essential to the recovery and sustain...

5. What's a mangrove?
(Past ecosystems/Mangrove forest)

...e mangrove ecosystem, where the pollen record actually suggests only Nypa palms (Dominici & Kowalke 2007). On the other side of the pyrenean gulf, findings of rhyzoporaceans pollens (Gruas-Cavagne...

6. Sperm whales carcasses at the shelf break
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...low the shelf break, after a three-year long experiment on five implanted sperm whales (Fujiwara et al. 2007 ). The research allowed to now about the existence of well-known exploiters of bone lipids ...

7. New species of sea anemone at 3000 m
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

... Research Institute. Check the original paper following the reference: Daly M., & Gusmão, L. 2007: The first sea anemone (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actinaria) froma whale fall. Journal of Natural...