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Nutrient cycling data comes from tiny shells once inhabited by foraminifera, organisms that digest nitrogen.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025
The researchers looked at carbon and oxygen isotopes in multiple species of planktonic and benthic foraminifera.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
This study has only worked on the planktonic foraminifera, however there are many other microfossil groups which have important roles in marine food webs which need to be studied.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
By creating burrows, foraminifera are engineering their entire ecosystem at a small-scale, allowing them to live deeper in the sediment where there is usually no oxygen.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2023
I found shells embedded in limestone varying considerably in its hardness being sometimes very friable and the surface in some places presenting innumerable fragments of corallines, with pectens, spatangi, echini, ostrea and foraminifera.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Thomas Mitchell
