Foraminiferal community response to seasonal anoxia in Lake Grevelingen (the Netherlands)

International audience ; Over the last decades, hypoxia in marine coastal environments have become more and more widespread, prolonged and intense. These hypoxic events have large consequences for the functioning of benthic ecosystems. They profoundly modify early diagenetic processes involved in organic matter recycling, and in severe cases, they may lead to complete anoxia and presence of toxic sulphides in the sediment and bottom water, thereby severely affecting biological compartments of benthic 20 marine ecosystems. Within these ecosystems, benthic foraminifera show a high diversity of e... Mehr ...