Quantifying the evolution of early life numerical approaches to the evaluation of fossils and ancient ecosystems /
This volume provides a detailed description of a wide range of numerical, statistical or modeling techniques and novel instrumentation separated into individual chapters written by paleontologists with expertise in the given methodology. Each chapter outlines the strengths and limitations of specifi...
| Other Authors: | Laflamme, Marc., Schiffbauer, James D., Dornbos, Stephen Q., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2011.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2011] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xx, 462 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Series: |
Topics in geobiology ;
v. 36. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ordination methods and the evaluation of Ediacaran communities / Matthew E. Clapham
- Exploratory multivariate techniques and their utility for understanding ancient ecosystems / John W. Huntley
- Morphometrics in the study of Ediacaran fossil forms / Marc Laflamme and Michelle M. Casey
- Analyzing predation from the dawn of the Phanerozoic / Lindsey R. Leighton
- Ecospace utilization during the Ediacaran radiation and the Cambrian eco-explosion / Andrew M. Bush, Richard K. Bambach, and Douglas H. Erwin
- Quantifying bioturbation in Ediacaran and Cambrian rocks / Katherine N. Marenco and David J. Bottjer
- 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
- Fossils with little relief : using lasers to conserve, image, and analyse the Ediacara biota / Jonathan B. Antcliffe and Martin D. Brasier
- Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman (and fluorescence) spectroscopic imagery of permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic fossils / J. William Schopf and Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev
- X-ray microanalysis of Burgess Shale and similarly preserved fossils / Patrick J. Orr and Stuart L. Kearns
- Ultrastructural approaches to the microfossil record : assessing biological affinities by use of transmission electron microscopy / Sebastian Willman and Phoebe A. Cohen
- Paleobiological applications of focused ion beam electron microscopy (FIB-EM) : an ultrastructural approach to the (micro)fossil record / James D. Schiffbauer and Shuhai Xiao
- Reconstructing deep-time biology with molecular fossils / Christian Hallmann [and others]
- Carbon and sulfur stable isotopic systems and their application in paleoenvironmental analysis / Kathleen A. McFadden and Amy E. Kelly.