2005 Salt Lake City Annual Meeting (October 16–19, 2005)
Session No. 206 Wednesday, 19 October 2005
8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Salt Palace Convention Center: 151 ABC

Paleontology VI: Partitioning Taxa—Patches, Gradients, and Regions

Steven M. Holland and Karen M. Layou, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
206-18:00 AM VIRTUAL PALEOECOSYSTEM (VIRPE): A NEW COMPUTATIONAL MODEL FOR ANALYZING PALEOECOSYSTEMS AND THE ACCURACY OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSES: SCHNEIDER, Chris L., Department of Geology, Appalachian State Univ, Boone, NC 28608, schneidercl@appstate.edu and LEIGHTON, Lindsey R., Department of Geological Sciences and Allison Center for Marine Research, San Diego State Univ, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182-1020
206-28:15 AM ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX AND PATCHY PALEOECOLOGIC GRADIENTS USING FLEXIBLE SHORTEST PATH ADJUSTMENT OF ECOLOGIC DISTANCES: BUSH, Andrew M., Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Road, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, abush@fas.harvard.edu
206-38:30 AM USING GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS AND GRADIENT ANALYSIS TO QUANTITATIVELY COMPARE SPATIO-TEMPORAL MORPHOLOGICAL TRENDS TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: WEBBER, Andrew J., Department of Geology, Miami Univ, 1601 University Blvd, Hamilton, OH 45011, webberaj@muohio.edu and HUNDA, Brenda R., Cincinnati Museum Center, 1301 Western Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45203
206-48:45 AM INTRASPECIFIC MORPHOLOGICAL DISPARITY OF CRINOID COLUMNALS IN RELATION TO WATER DEPTH IN THE TYPE CINCINNATIAN (UPPER ORDOVICIAN, 443-453 MYA): DELINE, Bradley, Dept of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, delinebl@email.uc.edu and MEYER, David L., Dept of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221
206-59:00 AM GRADIENT ECOLOGY DURING A MARINE BIOTIC INVASION: UPPER ORDOVICIAN OF THE CINCINNATI ARCH: HOLLAND, Steven M., Geology, Univ of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, stratum@gly.uga.edu and PATZKOWSKY, Mark E., Pennsylvania State Univ, 539 Deike Bldg, University Park, PA 16802-2714
206-69:15 AM CAN WE SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES? FAUNAL STABILITY AND SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE IN THE DEVONIAN HAMILTON GROUP, NEW YORK STATE: BAUGH, Heather L., Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Heroy Geology Laboratory, Syracuse, NY 13244, hlbaugh@syr.edu, BRETT, Carlton E., Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, 500 Geology/Physics Bldg, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, and IVANY, Linda C., Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244
206-79:30 AM DISCONTINUITY BUT NO STABILITY IN PERMIAN BRACHIOPOD COMMUNITIES OF WEST TEXAS: OLSZEWSKI, Thomas D., Dept of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, 3115 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3115, tomo@geo.tamu.edu and ERWIN, Douglas H., Paleobiology, MRC-121, National Museum of Nat History, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013
 9:45 AM Break
206-810:00 AM SHALLOW MARINE PALEOENVIRONMENTS AND BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA AT THE EDGE OF THE EARLY MIOCENE CENTRAL AMERICAN SEAWAY: LONDOÑO, Leonel Andres, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, llond001@fiu.edu and COLLINS, Laurel S., Dept. Earth Sciences, Florida Int'l Univ, Miami, FL 33199
206-910:15 AM LATE CENOZOIC MOLLUSCAN DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGY: PATTERNS FROM THE FOSSIL RECORD OF VIRGINIA: BARBOUR WOOD, Susan and KOWALEWSKI, Michal, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ, 4044 Derring Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, susanwood@vt.edu
206-1010:30 AM ADDITIVE DIVERSITY PARTITIONING OF A MARINE BIOTIC INVASION: UPPER ORDOVICIAN OF THE CINCINNATI ARCH: PATZKOWSKY, Mark E., Pennsylvania State Univ, 539 Deike Bldg, University Park, PA 16802-2714, brachio@geosc.psu.edu and HOLLAND, Steven M., Geology, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
206-1110:45 AM CORRECTING FOR THE SPECIES-AREA EFFECT WHEN ESTIMATING PALEODIVERSITY: CARRASCO, Marc A., BARNOSKY, Anthony D., and DAVIS, Edward B., Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720, carrasco@berkeley.edu
206-1211:00 AM EVENNESS AND DIVERSITY OF LOWER PALEOZOIC TRILOBITE FAUNAS OF LAURENTIAN NORTH AMERICA: ADRAIN, Jonathan M., Department of Geoscience, The University of Iowa, 121 Trowbridge Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242, jonathan-adrain@uiowa.edu and WESTROP, Stephen R., Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and School of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072
206-1311:15 AM MEASURING BETA DIVERSITY IN ANCIENT AND MODERN BIOTAS: SMITH, Krister T., Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511, krister.smith@yale.edu
206-1411:30 AM BRINGING UP BETA: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF EXTINCTION ON DIVERSITY WITH AN ADDITIVE PARTITIONING MODEL: LAYOU, Karen M. and HOLLAND, Steven M., Department of Geology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, klayou@uga.edu
206-1511:45 AM TOWARDS AN ASSESSMENT OF PHANEROZOIC TRENDS IN BETA DIVERSITY: THE IMPORTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOGRAPHIC SCALE: MILLER, Arnold I., BUICK, Devin P., BULINSKI, Katherine V., FERGUSON, Chad A., and HENDY, Austin J.W., Department of Geology, Univ of Cincinnati, 500 Geology Physics, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, arnold.Miller@uc.edu

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