Phytoplankton past and present : ecology and biodiversity of marine microalgal communities with particular emphasis on Antarctic ecosystems ...

• Main Author: McMinn, A
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University Of Tasmania 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/23230481; https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/Phytoplankton_past_and_present_ecology_and_biodiversity_of_marine_microalgal_communities_with_particular_emphasis_on_Antarctic_ecosystems/23230481

Dinoflagellate cysts and Diatoms. I have been working with the microalgal Divisions, Bascillariophyta (diatoms) and Dinophyta (dinoflagellates) since I began my PhD project on Late Cretaceous Dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of northwestern Australia in 1978. Fossil microalgae, principally diatoms, dinoflagellates and coccolithophoroids have been used extensively in palaeoecology and biostratigraphy throughout the world. As a result of regional endemism, Australian communities were often different from those elsewhere. This is clearly demonstrated in northern Australia during the Mesozoic (papers 1, 10) and Neogene (papers 9, 15) and in the Neogene of southern Australia (paper 8). Using dinoflagellate cysts I was able to establish regional biostratigraphies of the late Cretaceous (1) and Neogene (9, 15) of northern Australia and the Neogene of southern Australia (8). In order to better understand the palaeo environmental implications of dinoflagellate distributions I began to work on modern, living ...