2006 Philadelphia Annual Meeting (22–25 October 2006)
Session No. 43 Sunday, 22 October 2006
1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Pennsylvania Convention Center: 104 B

T118. Biotic Response to Global Environmental Change: Analogs for the Future of Life on Earth

Margaret L. Fraiser, Presiding
 Paper #Start Time
43-11:30 PM LIFE IN AN EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF NEOTOMA IN DEATH VALLEY, CA: SMITH, Felisa A., Department of Biology, Univ of New Mexico, 167 Castetter Hall, Albuquerque, NM 87131, fasmith@unm.edu
43-21:45 PM CALCAREOUS MICROFOSSIL RECORDS OF THE PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM: A "CRYSTAL BALL" FOR GAUGING FUTURE BIOTIC CHANGE CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION?: KELLY, D. Clay, Geology & Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, 1215 W. Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, ckelly@geology.wisc.edu
43-32:05 PM DRAMATIC DECREASE OF THE PELAGIC CARBONATE PRODUCTION BY NANNOPLANKTON ACROSS THE EARLY TOARCIAN ANOXIC EVENT: MATTIOLI, Emanuela1, PITTET, Bernard2, and SUAN, Guillaume1, (1) UMR 5125 CNRS PaléoEnvironnements & PaléobioSpère, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon1, 2, rue R. Dubois, Villeurbanne Cedex, 69622, France, mattioli@univ-lyon1.fr, (2) UMR 5125 CNRS Paléoenvironnements & PaléobioSphère, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon1, 2, rue R. Dubois, Villeurbanne Cedex, 69622, France
43-42:25 PM DECOUPLED DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGY DURING THE END-GUADALUPIAN EXTINCTION (LATE PERMIAN): CLAPHAM, Matthew E.1, BOTTJER, David J.1, and SHEN, Shuzhong2, (1) Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, clapham@usc.edu, (2) State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China
43-52:40 PM A NEW ROLE FOR ELEVATED CO2 IN THE PROLONGED PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BIOTIC CRISIS: FRAISER, Margaret L., Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 3209 N. Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211, mfraiser@uwm.edu and BOTTJER, David, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Zumberge Hall 117, Los Angeles, CA 90254
43-62:55 PM ONSHORE-OFFSHORE DISTRIBUTION OF PERMIAN TO JURASSIC BRYOZOANS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNATURE OF THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC AND TRIASSIC-JURASSIC MASS EXTINCTIONS: POWERS, Catherine M., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Zumberge Hall 117, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, jamet@usc.edu and BOTTJER, David J., Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Parkway, ZHS 117, Los Angeles, CA 90089
 3:10 PM Break
43-73:25 PM INCREASED INSECT HERBIVORY DURING THE LATEST PALEOCENE AND PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM IN THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING, USA: CURRANO, Ellen D.1, WILF, Peter2, WING, Scott L.3, and LABANDEIRA, Conrad C.3, (1) Department of Geosciences, Penn State, 534 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, ecurrano@geosc.psu.edu, (2) Department of Geosciences, Penn State, University Park, PA 16802, (3) Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560
43-83:40 PM BIOTIC RESPONSE TO SHORT TERM CLIMATIC CHANGES RECOGNIZED IN THE MIDDLE EOCENE OF BLAKE NOSE, WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC: UDEZE, Chioma1, FIRTH, John2, OLSZWESKI, Thomas1, and THOMAS, Deborah J.3, (1) Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, 3115 TAMU, College Station, TX 77840, cudeze@geo.tamu.edu, (2) Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX 77845, (3) Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3146
43-93:55 PM GLOBAL GREENHOUSE TO ICEHOUSE AND BACK AGAIN: THE ORIGIN AND FUTURE OF THE BOREAL FOREST BIOME: TAGGART, Ralph E. and CROSS, Aureal T., Geological Sciences, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI 48824, taggart@msu.edu
43-104:10 PM TROPICAL AMERICAN CORBULIDS: A NEW SOURCE OF PALEOENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: GOODWIN, David, Department of Geosciences, Denison University, FW Olin Science Hall, 100 Sunset Hill Drive, Granville, OH 43023, goodwind@denison.edu, ANDERSON, Laurie C., Dept of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, E235 Howe-Russell Bldg, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, and ROOPNARINE, Peter D., Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103
43-114:25 PM LATE PLEISTOCENE GASTROPODS FROM ALLUVIUM IN THE DRIFTLESS AREA OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN: KUCHTA, Matt1, GEARY, Dana2, and SLAUGHTER, Richard2, (1) Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 w dayton St, Madison, WI 53706, mk@geology.wisc.edu, (2) Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, 1215 W. Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706
43-124:40 PM FALLACIES OF THE DISHARMONIOUS INDEX AND RELEVANCE OF QUATERNARY NON-ANALOGUE MAMMAL FAUNAS FOR FUTURE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT CHANGE: GRAHAM, Russell Wm., Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, 19 Deike, University Park, PA 16802, rgraham@ems.psu.edu
43-134:55 PM TOLERANCE OF BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA TO SEVERELY ELEVATED CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS: IMPLICATIONS TO FUTURE ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING AND PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS: BERNHARD, Joan M., Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MS #52, Woods Hole, MA 02543, jbernhard@whoi.edu
43-145:10 PM ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY OR CHANGE ? COMBINING METHODOLOGIES FROM A BIODIVERSE AREA: MARCHANT, Rob A., Environment, The University of York, Heslington, York United Kingdom, rm524@york.ac.uk

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