Allmon / Bottjer Evolutionary Paleoecology

The Ecological Context of Macroevolutionary Change
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-231-52852-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Allmon, Warren

Bottjer, David

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Evolutionary Paleoecology: The Maturation of a Discipline, by Warren D. Allmon and David J. Bottjer
2. Scaling Is Everything: Brief Comments on Evolutionary Paleoecology, by James W. Valentine
3. What's in a Name? Ecologic Entities and the Marine Paleoecologic Record, by William Miller III
4. The Ecological Architecture of Major Events in the Phanerozoic History of Marine Invertebrate Life, by David J. Bottjer, Mary L. Drosser, Peter M. Sheehan, and George R. McGhee Jr.
5. Stability in Ecological and Paleoecological Systems: Variability at Both Short and Long Timescales, by Carol M. Tang
6. Applying Molecular Phylogeography to Test Paleoecological Hypotheses: A Case Involving Amblema plicata (Mollusca: Unionidae), by Bruce S. Lieberman
7. Nutrients and Evolution in the Marine Realm, by Warren D. Allmon and Robert M. Ross
8. The Role of Ecological Interactions in the Evolution of Naticid Gastropods and Their Molluscan Prey, by Patricia H. Kelley and Thor A. Hansen
9. Evolutionary Paleoecology of Caribbean Coral Reefs, by Richard B. Aronson and William F. Precht
10. Rates and Processes of Terrestrial Nutrient Cycling in the Paleozoic: The World Before Beetles, Termites, and Flies, by Anne Raymond, Paul Cutlip, and Merrill Sweet
11. Ecological Sorting of Vasular Plant Classes During the Paleozoic Evolutionary Radiation, by William A. DiMichele, William E. Stein, and Richard M. Bateman

Über Autor(innen)

Warren D. Allmon is director of the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York, and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University. He is coeditor of Causes of Evolution: A Paleontological Perspective.David J. Bottjer is professor of earth sciences at the University of Southern California and the editor (with Richard K. Bambach) of two Columbia University Press book series: Critical Moments in Paleobiology and Earth History and Perspectives in Paleobiology and Earth History. He has also been editor of the journal Palaios and currently is one of the editors of the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.