Comparing the Geological and Fossil Records: Implications for Biodiversity Studies
Product code: SP358
Print publication date: 20/12/2011
Earth and Solar System History, Stratigraphy, Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862393363
Author/Edited by: Edited by A McGowan and A B Smith
Weight: 0.78kg
Number of pages: 256
Online publication date: 13/12/2011
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/358/1
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Product Code: SP358
Edited by A McGowan and A B Smith
The past decade has witnessed a major revival in attempts to separate biodiversity signals from biases imposed by sampling and the architecture of the rock record. How large a problem this poses to our understanding of biodiversity patterns remains debatable, and new approaches are being developed to investigate this question. Here palaeobiologists with widely differing approaches and interests explore the problems of extracting reliable information on biodiversity change from an imperfect geological record. Topics covered range from the application of information-theoretic approaches that identify directional causal relationships to an in-depth study of how geological biases could influence our understanding of dinosaur evolution. A wide range of new insights into the links between the land, shallow-marine and deep-sea rock, and fossil records are presented, making this volume invaluable to anyone in the Earth or life sciences who wishes to remain abreast of this dynamic and rapidly evolving research area.
SMITH,A. B. & MCGOWAN, A. J. The ties linking rock and fossil records and why they are important for palaeobiodiversity studies
CHERNS,L. & WRIGHT, V. P. Skeletal mineralogy and biodiversity of marine invertebrates: size matters more than seawater chemistry
HANNISDAL, B. Detecting common-cause relationships with directional information transfer
O’CONNOR, A., MONCRIEFF,C. & WILLS, M. A. Variation in stratigraphic congruence (GER) through the Phanerozoic and across higher taxa is partially determined by sources of bias
WALL, P. D., IVANY,L.C. & WILKINSON, B. H. Impact of outcrop area on estimates of Phanerozoic terrestrial biodiversity trends
BENTON, M. J., DUNHILL, A. M., LLOYD,G.T. & MARX, F. G. Assessing the quality of the fossil record: insights from vertebrates
PETERS,S.E. & HEIM, N. A. Macrostratigraphy and macroevolution in marine environments: testing the common-cause hypothesis
CRAMPTON, J. S., FOOTE, M., COOPER, R. A., BEU, A.G. & PETERS, S. E. The fossil record and spatial structuring of environments and biodiversity in the Cenozoic of New Zealand
ZUSCHIN, M., HARZHAUSER,M. & MANDIC, O. Disentangling palaeodiversity signals from a biased sedimentary record: an example from the Early to Middle Miocene of Central Paratethys Sea
LAZARUS, D. B. The deep-sea microfossil record of macroevolutionary change in plankton and its study
LLOYD, G. T., SMITH,A.B. & YOUNG, J. R. Quantifying the deep-sea rock and fossil record bias using coccolithophores
BARNOSKY, A. D., CARRASCO,M.A. & GRAHAM, R. W. Collateral mammal diversity loss associated with late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions and implications for the future
BENSON,R.B.J. & BUTLER, R. J. Uncovering the diversi?cation history of marine tetrapods: ecology in?uences the effect of geological sampling biases
UPCHURCH, P., MANNION, P. D., BENSON, R. B. J., BUTLER,R. J. & CARRANO, M. T. Geological and anthropogenic controls on the sampling of the terrestrial fossil record: a case study from the Dinosauria
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