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2003 Seattle Annual Meeting (November 2–5, 2003)

Session No. 20
Sunday, 2 November 2003: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

T124. The Geologic Record of Biosphere Dynamics—The Key to Understanding the Biotic Effects of Future Environmental Change

GSA Geobiology & Geomicrobiology Division

 

Karl W. Flessa and David A. Feary, Advocates
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8:00 AM
BEYOND BASELINES IN HISTORICAL ECOLOGY: ESTIMATING THE NATURAL RANGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION
FLESSA, Karl W., Geosciences, Univ of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, kflessa@geo.arizona.edu, kflessa@geo.arizona.edu
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8:15 AM
30 YEAR LIVE/DEAD COMPARISON IN PERTURBED VS. STABLE ENVIRONMENTS: DEATH ASSEMBLAGE RESPONSE TO A GRADIENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
BEST, Mairi M.R. and BIBEAU, Karine, Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450 University St, Montreal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada, mmrbest@eps.mcgill.ca, mmrbest@eps.mcgill.ca
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8:30 AM
DEVELOPING BIOLOGICALLY REALISTIC NULL MODELS TO EVALUATE BIAS IN DEATH ASSEMBLAGES
KIDWELL, Susan M., Geophysical Sciences, Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, skidwell@uchicago.edu, skidwell@uchicago.edu
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8:45 AM
CLIMATE FLICKERS AND RANGE SHIFTS OF CORALS
PRECHT, William F., Ecological Sciences Program, PBS&J, 2001 NW 107th Avenue, Miami, FL 33172 and ARONSON, Richard B., Department of Marine Sciences, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, 101 Bienville Boulevard, Dauphin Island, AL 36528, bprecht@pbsj.com, bprecht@pbsj.com
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9:00 AM
BUCK ISLAND REEF – A CITY OF TWO TALES
HUBBARD, Dennis K., Dept. of Geology, Oberlin College, 52 W. Lorain St, Oberlin, OH 44074, dennis.hubbard@oberlin.edu, dennis.hubbard@oberlin.edu
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9:15 AM
PALEONTOLOGICAL INSIGHTS INTO THE ORIGIN AND MAINTENANCE OF THE PRESENT-DAY LATITUDINAL DIVERSITY GRADIENT
ROY, Kaustuv, Section of Ecology, Behavior & Evolution, Univ of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, JABLONSKI, David, Geophysical Sciences, Univ of Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 and VALENTINE, James W., Integrative Biology, Univ of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, kroy@ucsd.edu, kroy@ucsd.edu
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9:30 AM
MACROECOLOGY OF LATE PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS: BODY SIZE AND LOCAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
LYONS, S. Kathleen1, BROWN, James H.2, ERNEST, S.K. Morgan2 and SMITH, Felisa A.2, (1)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Univ of California Santa Barbara, 735 State St., Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, (2)Department of Biology, Univ of New Mexico, 167 Castetter Hall, Albuquerque, NM 87131, sklyons@unm.edu, sklyons@unm.edu
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9:45 AM
LANDSCAPE RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: HERE TODAY, GONE YESTERDAY, GONE TOMORROW?
WILLIAMS, John W., National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Univ of California Santa Barbara, 735 State St. Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 and JACKSON, Stephen T., Department of Botany - Box 3165, Univ of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071-3165, williams@nceas.ucsb.edu, williams@nceas.ucsb.edu
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10:00 AM
MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR CLOSURE OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN SEAWAY
COLLINS, Laurel S., Department of Earth Sciences, Florida Int'l Univ, Miami, FL 33199, collinsl@fiu.edu, collinsl@fiu.edu
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10:15 AM
RAINFALL AND THE MIOCENE EXPANSION OF C4 GRASSES: A LEAF WAX HYDROGEN ISOTOPE PALEOHYDROLOGIC PROXY
SMITH, Francesca A., Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State Univ, 542 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802 and FREEMAN, Katherine H., Pennsylvania State Univ - Univ Park, 209 Deike Bldg, University Park, PA 16802-2711, fsmith@geosc.psu.edu, fsmith@geosc.psu.edu
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10:30 AM
PRESERVATION POTENTIAL OF CALCIFIED EXTREMOPHILE MICROBIAL FORMS THROUGH GEOLOGIC TIME
DE WET, Carol B., Department of Earth and Environment, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604, carol.dewet@fandm.edu, carol.dewet@fandm.edu
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10:45 AM
BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES IN PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE LAKE SEDIMENTS, LAKE CLARK, ALASKA
FOUKE, Bruce W., Geology, Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1301 W.Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801 and HEISER, Patricia A., Geology, Univ of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508, fouke@uiuc.edu, fouke@uiuc.edu
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11:00 AM
PERMIAN BRACHIOPOD COMMUNITIES OF WEST TEXAS I: COMMUNITY PALEOECOLOGY
ERWIN, Douglas H., Department of Paleobiology, MRC-121, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560 and OLSZEWSKI, Thomas D., Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M, 3115 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, erwin.doug@nmnh.si.edu, erwin.doug@nmnh.si.edu
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11:15 AM
PERMIAN BRACHIOPOD COMMUNITIES OF WEST TEXAS II: APPLICATION OF NEUTRAL ECOLOGICAL THEORY
OLSZEWSKI, Thomas D., Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M, 3115 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 and ERWIN, Douglas H., Department of Paleobiology, MRC-121, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, tomo@geo.tamu.edu, tomo@geo.tamu.edu
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11:30 AM
THE FABRIC OF ADAPTIVE LANDSCAPES: UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTION OF DIVERSITY AND DISPARITY FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES
MARSHALL, Charles R., Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, cmarshall@oeb.harvard.edu, cmarshall@oeb.harvard.edu
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11:45 AM
EVOLUTIONARY INERTIA DISCOVERED IN PHANEROZOIC ORIGINATION AND EXTINCTION RATES
LU, Peter, Department of Physics, Harvard Univ, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, YOGO, Motohiro, Department of Economics, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 and MARSHALL, Charles R., Department of Invertebrate Paleontology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Univ, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, plu@fas.harvard.edu, plu@fas.harvard.edu
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