Diatoms and the Environment: Diatoms from the South China Sea Continental Margin and Palaeoenvironment

Author: Zhi Chongyuan
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Publishing Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book employs various mathematical statistical methods, including cluster analysis, optimal partitioning, factor analysis, principal component analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis, to study modern diatoms and environmental systems as well as fossil diatoms and paleoenvironmental systems. It establishes regression models between diatoms and water salinity, quantitatively and semi-quantitatively reconstructs paleoenvironments, elucidates the relationships between certain diatom species and assemblages and environmental conditions, and reveals the environmental evolution process of the southeastern continental margin of the East China Sea since the Late Pleistocene. The book is divided into 8 chapters:
Chapter 1, Geological and Natural Geographic Characteristics of the Study Area;
Chapter 2, Principles of Mathematical Statistics and Application of Computational Software;
Chapter 3, Collection and Laboratory Analysis Methods of Diatoms;
Chapter 4, Morphological and Ecological Characteristics of Common Diatoms in the Southeastern Continental Margin of the East China Sea;
Chapter 5, Relationship Between Surface Sediment Diatoms in Estuaries, Harbors, and the Taiwan Strait and Environmental Conditions;
Chapter 6, Relationship Between Late Quaternary Sediment Diatoms in the Southeastern Continental Margin of the East China Sea (Southern Fujian Section) and Paleoenvironment;
Chapter 7, Relationship Between Late Quaternary Sediment Diatoms in the Southeastern Continental Margin of the East China Sea (Northern Fujian Section) and Paleoenvironment;
Chapter 8, Comprehensive Comparative Analysis of Paleoenvironmental Evolution.
Additionally, before Chapter 1 is the Introduction, and after Chapter 8 is the Conclusion.