Ecosystem Paleobiology and Geobiology

About this book

Presented as a Paleontological Society short course at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado, October 26, 2013.

Contents

- Introduction: Ecosystem paleobiology and geobiology: connecting the biological and earth systems / Andrew M. Bush, Sara B. Pruss, and Jonathan L. Payne
- Theoretical ecospace for ecosystem paleobiology: energy, nutrients, biominerals, and macroevolution / Andrew M. Bush and Sara B. Pruss
- Quantifying seafood through time: counting calories in the fossil record / Seth Finnegan
- Microbial sedimentology of stromatolites in Neoproterozoic cap carbonates / Tanja Bosak, Giulio Mariotti, Francis A. Macdonald, J. Taylor Perron, and Sara B. Pruss
- Tackling the 99%: can we begin to understand the paleoecology of the small and soft-bodied animal majority? / Erik A. Sperling
- Altered primary production during mass-extinction events / Bas van de Schootbrugge and Sabine Gollner
- Mass extinctions and the structure and function of ecosystems / Pincelli M. Hull and Simon A.F. Darroch
- Ancient bug bites on ancient plants record forest ecosystem response to environmental perturbations / Ellen D. Currano
- Modeling 400 million years of plant hydraulics / Jonathan P. Wilson

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