Quaternary Asian marine ostracod paleoecology

Abstract

Quaternary marine ostracod paleoecology has been rapidly progressing in Asia during this century. For example, ostracod faunal changes associated with Holocene sea-level and environmental changes in deltas and embayments are now very well understood. In addition, ostracod biotic responses to various anthropogenic disturbances (pollution, eutrophication, hypoxia) are increasingly better understood using short sediment cores. However, many important areas and topics of marine ostracod paleoecology still remain under-studied in this region. Here I showcase Asian marine ostracod paleoecological studies that have recently been conducted in my research group in the University of Hong Kong (especially those by my postdoc Hokuto Iwatani and PhD students Yuanyuan Hong, Ruby W. T. Chiu, Richard C. W. Cheung, and Huai-Hsuan May Huang). These studies will include (but may not be limited to) tropical, deep-sea, submarine-cave, and marginal-sea paleoecology and ostracod-based paleoclimatology and paleoceanography; and aim to contribute the progress of Asian ostracod research.