Quantifying the evolution of early life
Subtitle: numerical approaches to the evaluation of fossils and ancient ecosystems
By: Marc Laflamme, James D. Schiffbauer, Stephen Q. Dornbos, editors
Series: Topics in geobiology -- v. 36; Topics in geobiology -- v. 36.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9789400706798; 9789400706804
Subjects: Methodology; Paleontology; Mathematical models; Evolution (Biology); Evolutionary paleobiology; Paleoecology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ordination methods and the evaluation of Ediacaran communities / Matthew E. Clapham; title: Exploratory multivariate techniques and their utility for understanding ancient ecosystems / John W. Huntley; title: Morphometrics in the study of Ediacaran fossil forms / Marc Laflamme and Michelle M. Casey; title: Analyzing predation from the dawn of the Phanerozoic / Lindsey R. Leighton; title: Ecospace utilization during the Ediacaran radiation and the Cambrian eco-explosion / Andrew M. Bush, Richard K. Bambach, and Douglas H. Erwin; title: Quantifying bioturbation in Ediacaran and Cambrian rocks / Katherine N. Marenco and David J. Bottjer; title: Assessing the role of skeletons in early Paleozoic carbonate production : insights from Cambro-Ordovician strata, western Newfoundland / Sara B. Pruss and Hannah Clemente / Exploring the ecological dynamics of extinction / Amelinda E. Webb and Lindsey R. Leighton; title: Fossils with little relief : using lasers to conserve, image, and analyse the Ediacara biota / Jonathan B. Antcliffe and Martin D. Brasier; title: Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman (and fluorescence) spectroscopic imagery of permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic fossils / J. William Schopf and Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev; title: X-ray microanalysis of Burgess Shale and similarly preserved fossils / Patrick J. Orr and Stuart L. Kearns; title: Ultrastructural approaches to the microfossil record : assessing biological affinities by use of transmission electron microscopy / Sebastian Willman and Phoebe A. Cohen; title: Paleobiological applications of focused ion beam electron microscopy (FIB-EM) : an ultrastructural approach to the (micro)fossil record / James D. Schiffbauer and Shuhai Xiao; title: Reconstructing deep-time biology with molecular fossils / Christian Hallmann ... [et al.]; title: Carbon and sulfur stable isotopic systems and their application in paleoenvironmental analysis / Kathleen A. McFadden and Amy E. Kelly.