Biotic Interactions in Recent and Fossil Benthic Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biotic Interactions in Recent and Fossil Benthic Communities write by Michael J.S. Tevesz. This book was released on 2014-07-22. Biotic Interactions in Recent and Fossil Benthic Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bryozoan Evolution
Bryozoan Evolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bryozoan Evolution write by Frank K. McKinney. This book was released on 1991-10-15. Bryozoan Evolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors argue that the growth pattern and form of the colony in many bryozoans is an adaptive strategy rather than a stable genetic character. "Bryozoan Evolution is profusely illustrated and has a bibliography of over 400 titles. It will find an appreciative audience of paleontologists, invertebrate zoologists, and ecologists thanks to its innovative and detailed evaluations of the roles of ecology, adaptive and functional morphology, life histories, biomechanics, developmental constraints, and chance on the evolution of the marine taxa of this speciose group."—Russel L. Zimmer, Science "This book is an excellent source of information on the functional morphology and variety of colonial architecture in bryozoans, very well illustrated, and worth reading at least twice."-Robert L. Anstey, Paleobiology "Even as one of the converted, I found the book a stimulating combination of paleobiology and ecology. In many ways it is a 'teaser'-the authors suggest a number of interesting hypotheses, and can test only some of them. Perhaps most important, McKinney and Jackson provide a plethora of fascinating ideas and examples that demonstrate the potential of this group of animals, and that should stimulate more work."-Michael S. Keough, TREE "This stimulating book is sure to promote further interest in bryozoans. It will appeal to biologists and paleontologists alike."-Paul Taylor, Times Higher Education Supplement
Ichnology
Ichnology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ichnology write by Luis A. Buatois. This book was released on 2011-08-11. Ichnology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ichnology is the study of traces created in the substrate by living organisms. This is the first book to systematically cover basic concepts and applications in both paleobiology and sedimentology, bridging the gap between the two main facets of the field. It emphasizes the importance of understanding ecologic controls on benthic fauna distribution and the role of burrowing organisms in changing their environments. A detailed analysis of the ichnology of a range of depositional environments is presented using examples from the Precambrian to the recent, and the use of trace fossils in facies analysis and sequence stratigraphy is discussed. The potential for biogenic structures to provide valuable information and solve problems in a wide range of fields is also highlighted. An invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students in paleontology, sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, this book will also be of interest to industry professionals working in petroleum geoscience.
Fossil Behavior Compendium
Fossil Behavior Compendium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fossil Behavior Compendium write by Arthur J. Boucot. This book was released on 2010-04-12. Fossil Behavior Compendium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this complete and thorough update of Arthur Boucot's seminal work, Evolutionary Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution, Boucot is joined by George Poinar, who provides additional expertise and knowledge on protozoans and bacteria as applied to disease. Together, they make the Fossil Behavior Compendium wider in scope, covering all relevant ani
Patterns and Processes in the History of Life
Patterns and Processes in the History of Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Patterns and Processes in the History of Life write by D.M. Raup. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Patterns and Processes in the History of Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hypothesis testing is not a straightforward matter in the fossil record and here, too interactions with biology can be extremely profitable. Quite simply, predictions regarding long-term consequences of processes observed in liv ing organisms can be tested directly using paleontological data if those liv ing organisms have an adequate fossil record, thus avoiding the pitfalls of extrapolative approaches. We hope to see a burgeoning of this interactive effort in the coming years. Framing and testing of hypotheses in paleon tological subjects inevitably raises the problem of inferring process from pattern, and the consideration and elimination of a broad range of rival hy is an essential procedure here. In a historical science such as potheses paleontology, the problem often arises that the events that are of most in terest are unique in the history of life. For example, replication of the metazoan radiation at the beginning of the Cambrian is not feasible. How ever, decomposition of such problems into component hypotheses may at least in part alleviate this difficulty. For example, hypotheses built upon the role of species packing might be tested by comparing evolutionary dy namics (both morphological and taxonomic) during another global diversi fication, such as the biotic rebound from the end-Permian extinction, which removed perhaps 95% of the marine species (see Valentine, this volume). The subject of extinction, and mass extinction in particular, has become important in both paleobiology and biology.
