Taxonomy, ecology and biogeographical trends of dominant benthic foraminifera species from an Atlantic-Mediterranean estuary (the Guadiana, southeast Portugal)

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The authors would like to thank to L. Pereira and P. Santana for technical assistance with field survey and J. Nieto and C. Cantero from Huelva University, for providing excellent MEV photography service. We are also grateful to M. Holzmann, from Geneva University, for kindly accepting our foraminifera in the Foram Barcoding project and for sharing the results and knowledge, and to the Editor P. Polly, to Dr F. Frontalini and one anonymous reviewer, who greatly improved the original manuscript with their advices. The present work was financially supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through a PhD grant SFRH/BD/28265/2006.