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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book brings together forty-four classic papers published between 1924 and 1999 that trace the origins and development of paleoecology. The articles cross taxonomic groups, habitat types, geographic areas, and time and have made substantial contributions to our knowledge of the evolution of life. Encompassing the full breadth of paleoecology, the book is divided into six parts: community and ecosystem dynamics, community reconstruction, diversity dynamics, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, species interaction, and taphonomy. Each paper is also introduced by a contemporary expert who gives context and explains its importance to ongoing paleoecological research. A comprehensive introduction to the field, Foundations of Paleoecology will be an essential reference for new students and established paleoecologists alike.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
REVIEWS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: Paleoecology as the Quintessence of Earth Studies (Peter J. Wagner, S. Kathleen Lyons, and Anna K. Behrensmeyer)
Part One: Community and Ecosystem Dynamics Edited by S. Kathleen Lyons, Cindy V. Looy, and Surangi Punyasena
1: K. R. Walker and L. F. Laporte (1970) Congruent Fossil Communities from Ordovician and Devonian Carbonates of New York Journal of Paleontology 44:928– 44 Commentary by Mark E. Patzkowsky
2: L. G. Marshall, S. D. Webb, J. J. Sepkoski Jr., and D. M. Raup (1982) Mammalian Evolution and the Great American Interchange Science 215:1351– 57 Commentary by Larisa R. G. DeSantis
3: J. W. Valentine (1971) Resource Supply and Species Diversity Patterns Lethaia 4:51– 61 Commentary by Seth Finnegan
4: J. A. Wolfe and G. R. Upchurch Jr. (1987) Leaf Assemblages across the Cretaceous- Tertiary Boundary in the Raton Basin, New Mexico and Colorado Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 84:5096– 5100 Commentary by Dena M. Smith
5: M. B. Davis (1969) Climatic Changes in Southern Connecticut Recorded by Pollen Deposition at Rogers Lake Ecology 50:409– 22 Commentary by Eric C. Grimm and Shinya Sugita
6: M. A. Buzas and T. G. Gibson (1969) Species Diversity: Benthonic Foraminifera in Western North Atlantic Science 163:72– 75 Commentary by Ellen Thomas
7: B. Van Valkenburgh (1988) Trophic Diversity in Past and Present Guilds of Large Predatory Mammals Paleobiology 14:155– 73 Commentary by Nicholas D. Pyenson
8: A. C. Scott and T. P. Jones (1991) Fossil Charcoal: A Plant- Fossil Record Preserved by Fire Geology Today 7:214– 16 Commentary by Claire M. Belcher
Part Two: Community Reconstruction Edited by Scott L. Wing and Marty Buzas
9: J. L. Cisne and B. D. Rabe (1978) Coenocorrelation: Gradient Analysis of Fossil Communities and Its Applications in Stratigraphy Lethaia 11:341– 64 Commentary by Mark E. Patzkowsky
10: A. M. Ziegler (1965) Silurian Marine Communities and Their Environmental Signifi cance Nature 207:270– 72 Commentary by Thomas D. Olszewski
11: L. J. Hickey and J. A. Doyle (1977) Early Cretaceous Fossil Evidence for Angiosperm Evolution Botanical Review 43:2– 104 Commentary by Scott L. Wing and Nathan Jud
12: R. G. Johnson (1964) The Community Approach to Paleoecology In Approaches to Paleoecology, 107– 34, ed. J. Imbrie and N. D. Newell (New York: Wiley) Commentary by Marty Buzas
13: T. L. Phillips, A. B. Kunz, and D. J. Mickish (1977) Paleobotany of Permineralized Peat (Coal Balls) from the Herrin (No. 6) Coal Member of the Illinois Basin In Interdisciplinary Studies of Peat and Coal Origins, 18– 49, ed. P. H. Given and A. D. Coh
14: N. D. Newell (1957) Paleoecology of Permian Reefs in the Guadalupe Mountains Area Geological Society of America Memoir 67:407– 36 Commentary by Richard K. Bambach
Part Three: Diversity Dynamics Edited by Peter J. Wagner and Gene Hunt
15: D. M. Raup (1972) Taxonomic Diversity during the Phanerozoic Science 177:1065– 71 Commentary by Shanan E. Peters
16: D. Jablonski, J. J. Sepkoski Jr., D. J. Bottjer, and P. M. Sheehan (1983) Onshore- Offshore Patterns in the Evolution of Phanerozoic Shelf Communities Science 222:1123– 25 Commentary by Richard B. Aronson
17: J. W. Valentine (1969) Patterns of Taxonomic and Ecological Structure of the Shelf Benthos during Phanerozoic Time Palaeontology 12:684– 709 Commentary by Michael Foote
18: J. J. Sepkoski Jr. (1978) A Kinetic Model of Phanerozoic Taxonomic Diversity. I. Analysis of Marine Orders Paleobiology 4:223– 51 Commentary by Arnold I. Miller
19: J. W. Valentine and E. M. Moores (1970) Plate- Tectonic Regulation of Faunal Diversity and Sea Level: A Model Nature 228:657– 59 Commentary by Matthew G. Powell
20: R. K. Bambach (1977) Species Richness in Marine Benthic Habitats through the Phanerozoic Paleobiology 3:152– 67 Commentary by Andrew M. Bush
21: B. H. Tiffney (1984) Seed Size, Dispersal Syndromes, and the Rise of the Angiosperms: Evidence and Hypothesis Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 71:551– 76 Commentary by Hallie J. Sims
22: P. Andrews, J. M. Lord, and E. M. Nesbit Evans (1979) Patterns of Ecological Diversity in Fossil and Modern Mammalian Faunas Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 11:177– 205 Commentary by Catherine Badgley
Part Four: Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction Edited by Anna K. Behrensmeyer and Caroline A. E. Strömberg
23: M. L. Natland (1933) The Temperature- and Depth- Distribution of Some Recent and Fossil Foraminifera in the Southern California Region Bulletin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Technical Series 3:225– 30 Commentary by Marty Buzas
24: J. C. Vogel and N. J. Van der Merwe (1977) Isotopic Evidence for Early Maize Cultivation in New York State American Antiquity 42:238– 42 Commentary by Noreen Tuross
25: M. K. Elias (1937) Depth of Deposition of the Big Blue (Late Paleozoic) Sediments in Kansas Geological Society of America Bulletin 48:403– 32 Commentary by Thomas D. Olszewski
26: J. C. Zachos, M. A. Arthur, and W. E. Dean (1989) Geochemical Evidence for Suppression of Pelagic Marine Productivity at the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary Nature 337:61– 64 Commentary by Steven D’Hondt
27: T. E. Cerling, Y. Wang, and J. Quade (1993) Expansion of C4 Ecosystems as an Indicator of Global Ecological Change in the Late Miocene Nature 361:344– 45 Commentary by David L. Fox
28: J. A. Wolfe (1978) A Paleobotanical Interpretation of Tertiary Climates in the Northern Hemisphere American Scientist 66:694– 703 Commentary by Peter Wilf
Part Five: Species Interaction Edited by Conrad C. Labandeira and Hans- Dieter Sues
29: D. H. Janzen and P. S. Martin (1982) Neotropical Anachronisms: The Fruits the Gomphotheres Ate Science 215:19– 27 Commentary by Jessica Theodor
30: C. W. Thayer (1979) Biological Bulldozers and the Evolution of Marine Benthic Communities Science 203:458– 61 Commentary by Mary Droser
31: G. J. Vermeij (1977) The Mesozoic Marine Revolution: Evidence from Snails, Predators, and Grazers Paleobiology 3:245– 58 Commentary by Patricia H. Kelley
32: P. Wilf and C. C. Labandeira (1999) Response of Plant- Insect Associations to Paleocene- Eocene Warming Science 284:2153– 56 Commentary by Ellen D. Currano
33: E. C. Olson (1966) Community Evolution and the Origin of Mammals Ecology 47:291– 302 Commentary by Kenneth D. Angielczyk
34: P. S. Martin (1973) The Discovery of America Science 179:969– 74 Commentary by Anthony D. Barnosky
35: L. Van Valen (1973) A New Evolutionary Law Evolutionary Theory 1:1– 30 Commentary by Andy Purvis
Part Six: Taphonomy Edited by Nicholas D. Pyenson
36: J. A. Shotwell (1955) An Approach to the Paleoecology of Mammals Ecology 36:327– 37 Commentary by Patricia A. Holroyd and Susumu Tomiya
37: J. E. Warme (1969) Live and Dead Molluscs in a Coastal Lagoon Journal of Paleontology 43:141– 50 Commentary by Susan Kidwell
38: I. A. Efremov (1940) Taphonomy: New Branch of Paleontology Pan- American Geologist 74:81– 93 Commentary by Anna K. Behrensmeyer
39: A. K. Behrensmeyer (1978) Taphonomic and Ecological Information from Bone Weathering Paleobiology 4:150– 62 Commentary by Raymond R. Rogers
40: S. M. Kidwell, F. T. Fürsich, and T. Aigner (1986) Conceptual Framework for the Analysis and Classifi cation of Fossil Concentrations Palaios 1:228– 38 Commentary by Adam Tomašových
41: R. W. Chaney (1924) Quantitative Studies of the Bridge Creek Flora American Journal of Science, 5th ser., 8:127– 44 Commentary by Leo J. Hickey
42: D. R. Lawrence (1968) Taphonomy and Information Losses in Fossil Communities Geological Society of America Bulletin 79:1315– 30 Commentary by Carlton E. Brett
43: R. G. Johnson (1960) Models and Methods for Analysis of the Mode of Formation of Fossil Assemblages Geological Society of America Bulletin 71:1075– 86 Commentary by Richard K. Bambach
44: A. Seilacher, W.- E. Reif, and F. Westphal (1985) Sedimentological, Ecological, and Temporal Patterns of Fossil Lagerstätten Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 311:5– 24 Commentary by Derek E. G. Briggs
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index