T43 Biotic Response to Global Environmental Change: Analogs for the Future of Life on Earth

Sunday, 22 October 2006
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  LIFE IN AN EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF NEOTOMA IN DEATH VALLEY, CA
  Felisa A. Smith, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  111384 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 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?
  D. Clay Kelly, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  116381 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  DRAMATIC DECREASE OF THE PELAGIC CARBONATE PRODUCTION BY NANNOPLANKTON ACROSS THE EARLY TOARCIAN ANOXIC EVENT
  Emanuela Mattioli, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon1, Villeurbanne Cedex, N/A and Bernard Pittet, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon1, Villeurbanne Cedex, N/A and Guillaume Suan, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon1, Villeurbanne Cedex, N/A
  110234 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:25 PM
  DECOUPLED DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGY DURING THE END-GUADALUPIAN EXTINCTION (LATE PERMIAN)
  Matthew E. Clapham, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and David Bottjer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Shuzhong Shen, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Nanjing, N/A
  111312 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:40 PM
  A NEW ROLE FOR ELEVATED CO2 IN THE PROLONGED PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BIOTIC CRISIS
  Margaret L. Fraiser, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI and David Bottjer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  110895 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:55 PM
  ONSHORE-OFFSHORE DISTRIBUTION OF PERMIAN TO JURASSIC BRYOZOANS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNATURE OF THE PERMIAN-TRIASSIC AND TRIASSIC-JURASSIC MASS EXTINCTIONS
  Catherine M. Powers, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and David Bottjer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  110804 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:25 PM
  INCREASED INSECT HERBIVORY DURING THE LATEST PALEOCENE AND PALEOCENE-EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM IN THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING, USA
  Ellen D. Currano, Penn State, University Park, PA and Peter Wilf, Penn State, University Park, PA and Scott L. Wing, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC and Conrad C. Labandeira, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
  109498 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  BIOTIC RESPONSE TO SHORT TERM CLIMATIC CHANGES RECOGNIZED IN THE MIDDLE EOCENE OF BLAKE NOSE, WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC
  Chioma Udeze, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and John Firth, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX and Thomas Olszweski, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and Deborah J. Thomas, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
  113276 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  GLOBAL GREENHOUSE TO ICEHOUSE AND BACK AGAIN: THE ORIGIN AND FUTURE OF THE BOREAL FOREST BIOME
  Ralph E. Taggart, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI and Aureal T. Cross, Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI
  114577 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  TROPICAL AMERICAN CORBULIDS: A NEW SOURCE OF PALEOENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
  David Goodwin, Denison University, Granville, OH and Laurie C. Anderson, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA and Peter Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, San Francisco, CA
  114976 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  LATE PLEISTOCENE GASTROPODS FROM ALLUVIUM IN THE DRIFTLESS AREA OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN
  Matt Kuchta, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI and Dana Geary, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI and Richard Slaughter, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
  114220 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  FALLACIES OF THE DISHARMONIOUS INDEX AND RELEVANCE OF QUATERNARY NON-ANALOGUE MAMMAL FAUNAS FOR FUTURE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT CHANGE
  Russell Wm. Graham, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  110406 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:55 PM
  TOLERANCE OF BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA TO SEVERELY ELEVATED CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATIONS: IMPLICATIONS TO FUTURE ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING AND PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS
  Joan Bernhard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst MS #52 / Dept G&G, Woods Hole, MA
  112070 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:10 PM
  ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY OR CHANGE ? COMBINING METHODOLOGIES FROM A BIODIVERSE AREA
  Rob A. Marchant, The University of York, York, N/A
  107704 (Technical Sessions)