New Book-Biotic Recovery from Mass Extinctions-Geological Society

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Biotic Recovery from Mass Extinction Events
Edited by M.B. Hart (University of Plymouth, UK) Published April 16,1996

Geological Society Special Publication No. 102
394 pages, hardback, ISBN: 1-897799-45-4, List price 56/US$93

Containing papers by leading authorities on several of the major
extinction events of the geological record, the volume brings together
new data on a wide range of floral and faunal groups. Several of the
papers describe the recovery and recolonization processes following the
extinction events while others discuss the problems of survivor taxa,
disaster taxa and progenitor species. The examples chosen come from
geological successions in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and
the Indian Subcontinent. 

The text is essential reading for palaeontologists, palaeobiologists,
sedimentary geologists and all those involved in the debate over the
cause and nature of extinction events.

Contents
Comparative evolutionary palaeoecology: assessing the changing ecology
of the past  The importance of crisis progenitors in recovery from mass
extinction  Models for biotic survival following mass extinction 
Recovery as a function of community structure  Insect origination and
extinction in the Phanerozoic  Reef ecosystem recovery after the Early
Cambrian extinction  Ostracode speciation following Middle Ordovician
extinction events, North Central United States  Biotic recovery after
mass extinction: the role of climate and ocean-state in the post-glacial
(Late Ordovician -Early Silurian) recovery of the conodonts  Recovery
of post-Late Ordovician extinction graptolites: a western North American
perspective  Diachronous recovery patterns in Early Silurian corals,
graptolites and acritarchs  Searching for extinction/recovery
gradients: the Frasnian - Famennian interval, Mokr Section, Moravia,
central Europe  Juvenile goniatite survival strategies following
Devonian extinction events  The mid-Carboniferous rugose coral recovery
 Climate change, plant extinctions and vegetational recovery during the
Middle-Late Pennsylvanian Transition: the case of tropical peat-forming
environments in North America  Recoveries and radiations: gastropods
after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction  Recovery of the marine fauna
in Europe after the end-Triassic and Early Toarcian mass extinctions 
Foraminiferal recovery after the mid-Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events
(OAEs) in the Cauvery Basin, southeast lndia  Benthonic foraminiferal
mass extinction and survival assemblages from the Cenomanian-Turonian
Boundary Event in the Menoyo Section, N. Spain  Planktonic
foraminiferal recovery from the Cenomanian-Turonian mass extinction
event, northeastern Caucasus  The recovery of the food chain after the
Late Cenomanian extinction event  The recovery of Turonian
dinoflagellate cyst assemblages from the effects of the oceanic anoxic
event at the end of the Cenomanian in southern England  Post-crisis
recovery of the Campanian desmoceratacean ammonites from Sakhalin, Far
East Russia  Latest Cretaceous mollusc species fabric of the U. S.
Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: a baseline for measuring biotic
recovery  Phenotypic experiments into new pelagic niches in Early
Danian planktonic Foraminifera: aftermath of the K/T boundary event 
Recovery of North Caucasus foraminiferal assemblages after the pre-
Danian extinction  Extinction and survivorship of southern Tethyan
benthic foraminifera across the Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary 
Recovery of the naticid gastropod predator-prey system from the
Cretaceous-Tertiary and Eocene-Oligocene extinctions

Principal Authors
D.J. Bottjer (University of Southern California, USA)
E.G. Kauffman (University of Colorado, USA)
P.J. Harries (University of South Florida, USA)
V.A. Krassilov (Palaeontological Institute, Russa)
E.A. Jarzembowski (Consultant, UK)
A.Yu. Zhuravlev (Palaeontological Institute, Russia)
F.M. Swain (University of Minnesota, USA)
H.A. Armstrong (University of Durham, UK)
W.B.N. Berry (University of California, USA)
D. Kaljo (Estonian Academy of Sciences, Estonia)
P. Cejchan (Academy of Science, Czech Republic)
M.R. House (Southampton Oceanographic Centre, UK)
O.L. Kossovaya (All Russian Geological Research Institute, Russia)
W.A. Dimichelle (National Museum of Natural History, USA)
D.H. Erwin (National Museum of Natural History, USA)
A. Hallam (University of Birmingham, UK)
M.B. Hart (University of Plymouth, UK)
D. Peryt (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
N.A. Tur (All-Russian Research Geological Institute, Russia)
A.B. Hart (University of Plymouth, UK)
M.E.J. FitzPatrick (University of Plymouth, UK)
E. A. Yazykova (VSEGEI, Russia)
C.F. Koch (Old Dominion University, USA)
E.A.M. Koutsoukos (Ciadade Universitaria, Brazil)
E.M. Bugrova (All-Russian Geological Research Institute, Russia)
R.P. Speijer (Goteborg University, Sweden)
P.H. Kelley (University of North Dakota, USA)



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