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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Conference Participants | |
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| Evolutionary Paleoecology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Methods of Evolutionary Paleoecology | |
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| Taphonomy | |
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| Ecological Characterization of Extinct Species | |
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| Ecological Characterization of Past Communities: Synchronic Features | |
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| Ecological Characterization of Past Communities: Diachronic Features | |
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| Conclusion References | |
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| Paleoenvironmental Contexts and Taphonomic Modes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Coastal Environments | |
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| Offshore | |
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| Beaches | |
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| Lagoons and Other Back-Barrier Settings | |
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| Estuaries | |
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| Fluvial and Deltaic Environments | |
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| Channels: Basal Lags and Bars | |
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| Abandoned Channel Fills | |
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| Levees | |
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| Floodplains | |
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| Crevasse Splays | |
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| Interdistributary Bays | |
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| Lacustrine Environments | |
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| Oxygen-Depleted Large Lakes | |
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| Oxygen-Depleted Small, Deep Lakes | |
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| Oxygen-Depleted Small, Shallow Lakes | |
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| Oxygenatednbsp; Large Lakes | |
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| Oxygenated Small Lakes | |
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| Volcanigenic Environments | |
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| Explosive Events | |
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| Primary Airfall | |
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| Lacustrine Volcaniclastics | |
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| Eolian Environments | |
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| Dunes and Interdunes | |
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| Loess | |
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| Other Contexts for Organic Preservation | |
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| Traps | |
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| Burrows | |
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| Feces and Regurgitates | |
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| Middens | |
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| Archeological Accumulations | |
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| Springs | |
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| Peat-Forming Environments | |
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| Charcoal Deposits | |
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| Mud Slides and Flash Floods | |
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| Time and Space Resolution in the Fossil Record | |
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| Time Resolution and Completeness | |
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| Methods for Assessing Time Resolution | |
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| Spatial Resolution | |
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| Resolution in the Taphonomic Modes | |
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| Change through Time in the Taphonomic Modes | |
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| Effects of Area | |
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| Consequence of Environmental Change | |
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| Changes in Taphonomic Processes | |
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| Conclusion References | |
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| Ecological Characteristics of Fossil Plants | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Autecology of Extinct Plants | |
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| Inferring Autecology from Functional Morphology | |
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| Inferring Autecology from Living Relatives | |
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| Inferring Autecology from Sedimentary Environment | |
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| Methods of Sampling and Analysis at the Community Level | |
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| Sampling Compression-Impression Assemblages | |
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| Sampling Permineralized Peats | |
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| Sampling Microfossils | |
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| Taphonomy and Effective Sampling Radius | |
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| Analytical Methods | |
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| Synecology of Extinct Vegetation | |
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| Synchronic Features of Extinct Vegetation | |
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| Comparison of Communities across Time | |
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| Ecological Interpretation of Morphology at the Community Level | |
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| Ecological Categories | |
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| Conclusion References | |
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| Taxon-Free Characterization of Animal Communities | |
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| Introduction: Taxon-Free Characterizations | |
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| One Approach to Taxon-Free Characterization | |
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| Ecomorphology and Ecological Types | |
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| Functional Morphology and Autecological Inference | |
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| Continuous versus Category Variables | |
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| A Basic Set of Ecological Variables and Categories | |
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| Analyses Using Ecological Types | |
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| Complementary Approaches and Higher-Level Inferences References | |
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| Paleozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Ordovician | |
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| The Silurian | |
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| The Early to Middle Devonian | |
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| Plants | |
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| Animals | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| The Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous | |
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| Plants | |
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| Animals | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| The Late Carboniferous: Westphalian and Stephanian | |
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| Plants | |
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| Invertebrates | |
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| Vertebrates | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| The Permian | |
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| Plants | |
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| Arthropods | |
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| Vertebrates | |
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| Synthesis | |
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| Paleozoic Summary and Discussion | |
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| Ecosystem Stability and Persistence | |
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| Conclusions References | |
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| Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Triassic Biotas | |
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| Triassic Vegetation of Laurasia | |
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| Triassic Vegetation o | |