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AScribe (press release), USA: 96-Million-Year-Old Fossil Pollen Sheds Light on Early Pollinators.
M.P. Ayres, T.P. Clausen, S.F. MacLean, A.M. Redman, and P.B. Reichardt (1997): Diversity of structure and antiherbivore activity in condensed tannins. PDF file, Ecology 78: 1696-1712.
The L. H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University: Paleobotanical Holdings at the Bailey Hortorium, History of Biotic Pollination.
Roy J. Beckemeyer, Wichita: Fossil Insects. Permian fossil insects from Elmo, Kansas, and Midco, Oklahoma.
Helen Briggs, BBC News Online: Oldest hamster food store found. A hoard of nuts (Miocene in age) discovered in an open-cast mine near Garzweiler (Germany).
Karen Chin (Nature 451, 1053;2008): Pest friends in the Cretaceous. Fossils preserved in amber hint at surprising links between dinosaurs and their insect contemporaries. Book review: What Bugged the Dinosaurs? Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous; by George Poinar, Jr & Roberta Poinar, Princeton University Press, 2008. 296 pp.
Fred Clouter, Lower Eocene Fossils of the Isle of Sheppey: Fossil Trees & Logs. Teredo borings.
Richard Cowen, Department of Geology, University of California, Davis: Studying Evolution. Mini-essays and sub-sections concerning evolution. See: Coevolution: Plants and Pollinators.
DEEMY Characterization and DEtermination of EctoMYcorrhizae (by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Dept. Biologie I – Systematische Mykologie). DEEMY is a research database (including images) for identifying and characterizing ectomycorrhizae fungus-plant interactions.
Dong Ren, National Geological Museum of China, Beijing: Flower-Associated Brachycera Flies as Fossil Evidence for Jurassic Angiosperm Origins.
L.A. Dyer and D.K. Letourneau (2003): Top-down and bottom-up diversity cascades in detrital versus living food webs. PDF file, Ecology Letters 6:60-68.
! The EDNA fossil insect database (named after Edna Clifford): EDNA aims to be a complete, fully interactive list of all the species of insect named from the fossil record, including site, geological age and reference for each holotype. Read the Help Searching for better search results.
Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham,
Surrey, UK: Research activities,
Animal -plant interactions.
EnchantedLearning.com: DINOSAURS AND PLANTS. An easy to understand introduction about the food chain of sauropods and Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous plants.
Neal L. Evenhuis, Department of Natural Sciences, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii: Catalogue of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera).
Michael J. Everhart, Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University: OCEANS OF KANSAS - A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea (Indiana University Press, 2005), Shipworm borings (teredo) in wood.
Jörg Fröbisch and Robert R. Reisz (2009): The Late Permian herbivore Suminia and the early evolution of arboreality in terrestrial vertebrate ecosystems. Abstract, see also here (brief summary by Matt Celeskey). The earliest tree-dweller in the late Permian.
Carole T. Gee (2008): Sauropod food plants from physiological and paleobotanical perspectives. Abstract, 18th Plant Taphonomy Meeting, Vienna, Austria.
Geological Society of America: GSA Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts: Insects and Terrestrial Arthropods in the Fossil Record: Are So Many Really Represented by So Few? Abstracts.
Geological Survey of Canada: Earth Sciences Sector > Geological Survey of Canada > Past lives: Fossil termite excrement.
L. Grauvogel-Stamm & K.-P. Kelber (1996): Plant-insect interactions and coevolution during the Triassic in Western Europe.- PDF file, 30 MB! Paleontologica Lombardia, N. S. 5: 5-23, 31 fig.; Milano. Abstract available here.
Stephen T. Hasiotis, Russell F. Dubiel, Paul T. Kay, Timothy M. Demko, Krystyna Kowalska, and Douglas McDaniel: Research Update on Hymenopteran Nests and Cocoons, Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.
International Palaeoentomological Society (IPS). The aims of the Society are to promote and advance the understanding of fossil insects and other non-marine arthropods.
Derek Keats, Department of Botany, University of the Western Cape, Bellville (Cape Town) South Africa: Herbivory.
Book announcement: Kelley, Patricia H.; Kowalewski, Michal; Hansen, Thor A. (eds.): Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record. Series: Topics in Geobiology, Vol. 20; 2003, 484 p.
J. Koricheva (2002): Meta-analysis of sources of variation in fitness costs of plant antiherbivore defenses. PDF file, Ecology 83: 176-190.
M. Kowalewski (2002): The fossil record of predation: An overview of analytical methods. PDF file, In: Kowalewski, M., and Kelley, P.H., eds., The Fossil Record of Predation: Paleontological Society Special Papers 8: 3-42.
V.A. Krassilov and E.V. Karasev (2008): First evidence of plant-arthropod interaction at the Permian-Triassic boundary in the Volga Basin, European Russia. PDF file, Alavesia, 2: 247-252.
V.A. Krassilov and A.P. Rasnitsyn (2008): Plant-arthropod interactions in the early angiosperm history: evidence from the Cretaceous of Israel. PDF file, 222 p., (Pensoft Publishers & Brill Academic Publishers), Sofia, Moscow.
M. Krings et al.(2002): Touch-sensitive glandular trichomes: a mode of defence against herbivorous arthropods in the Carboniferous. PDF file, Evolutionary Ecology Research, 4: 779-786.
! Conrad C. Labandeira et al., Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History: Guide to Insect (and Other) Damage Types on Compressed Plant Fossils (PDF file). See also here.
! Conrad C. Labandeira, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Enhanced: How Old Is the Flower and the Fly? Including an extensive annotated link directory. Science 1998; 280: 57-59.
Conrad C. Labandeira and Gunter J. Eble, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology, Washington, DC: THE FOSSIL RECORD OF INSECT DIVERSITY AND DISPARITY (PDF file).
Conrad C. Labandeira: EARLY HISTORY OF ARTHROPOD AND VASCULAR PLANT ASSOCIATIONS.- Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 1998 26: 329-377. Full Online Access via Annual Reviews, Go to Annual Reviews Search Page (Biomedical Sciences), Search for "Labandeira" (Field Author, Last Name).
Conrad C. Labandeira: INSECT MOUTHPARTS: Ascertaining the Paleobiology of Insect Feeding Strategies.- Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 1997 28: 153-193. Full Online Access via Annual Reviews, Go to Annual Reviews Search Page (Biomedical Sciences), Search for "Labandeira" (Field Author, Last Name).
Laboratory of Arthropods, Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow: Publications. Pdf files, free download.
Joachim Laukenmann, Die Zeit: Saurier - Theorie der Giganten (in German). The sauropod gigantism.
Ronald J. Litwin, Robert E. Weems, and Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Eastern Publications Group Web Team: Dinosaurs: Facts and Fiction, What did dinosaurs eat? Easy to understand contribution.
John M. Miller, School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of the South Pacific (USP): Origin of Angiosperms. Go to: Insect-Plant Mutualisms.
Sebastian Molnar, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver: Evolution and the Origins of Life. A directory of introductions concerning evolution, with a bias to Plant Biology and Evolution. Excellent examples about how evolution works can be seen from the plant world. Go to: Plant Insect Resistance.
Alan V. & Anne Morgan, Department of Earth Sciences and Quaternary Sciences Institute, University of Waterloo, Ontario: The Use of Fossil Coleoptera.
Laboratory of Arthropods, Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow: Palaeoentomology in Russia. Go to: ECOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE TERRESTRIAL INSECTS (by V.V. Zherikhin).
Nalini M. Nadkarni, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA: Plant-Animal Interactions. Bibliographic citations on plant-animal interactions.
Dan Nickrent, Department of Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale: The Parasitic Plant Connection. A repository of information on parasitic plants.
Christian Pott et al. 2008): Fossil Insect Eggs and Ovipositional Damage on Bennettitalean Leaf Cuticles from the Carnian (Upper Triassic) of Austria. Journal of Paleontology, 82: 778-789. See also here (PDF file).
Vandana Prasad, Caroline A.E. Strömberg, Habib Alimohammadian, and Ashok Sahni: Dinosaur Coprolites and the Early Evolution of Grasses and Grazers. Abstract, Science, November 18, 2005: 1177-1180. Silica particles from grass in fossil dung from Cretaceous sauropods suggest that grasses evolved earlier than had been thought, providing food for dinosaurs and early mammals. See also here (S. Perkins, Sciencenews), and there. (by Andreas Jahn, Die Zeit, November 11, 2005; in German).
Robert Randell, British Chalk Fossils: Driftwood with Teredo borings.
Authored by the The Rhynie Chert Research Group, University of Aberdeen, with contributions and support by the Palaeobotanical Research Group, University of Münster, Germany, the Centre for Palynology, University of Sheffield, The Natural History Museum, London, and The Royal Museum, National Museums of Scotland: The Biota of Early Terrestrial Ecosystems, The Rhynie Chert. A resource site for students and teachers covering many aspects of the present knowledge of this unique geological deposit (including a glossary and bibliography pages). Go to: Evidence for Plant/Animal Interactions.
Claudia Schülke, FAZ, Germany: Palmenhaus, Lebende und versteinerte Pflanzen aus der Zeit der Saurier. In German.
! A.C. Scott et al. (1994): The fossil record of leaves with galls. PDF file, In: Michele A.J. Williams (ed.): Plant Galls.
A.C. Scott, J.M. Anderson, & H.M. Anderson (2004): Evidence of plant–insect interactions in the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation of South Africa. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 161: 401–410. See also here, and there (PDF file).
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Ancient Insect-Plant Relationship Persists through Time.
! N. Stamp (2003): Out of the quagmire of plant defense hypotheses. PDF file, Quarterly Review of Biology 78: 23-55.
Hans Steur, Ellecom, The Netherlands:
Hans´ Paleobotany Pages.
Plant life from the Silurian to the Cretaceous. Go to:
Little animals in the Coal Swamp.
Ralph E. Taggart, & A.T. Cross, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing: The relationship between land plant diversity and productivity and patterns of dinosaur herbivory. PDF file, p.403-416 in Wolberg, D.L., E. Stump, and G.D. Rosenberg (eds.), Proceedings of the Dinofest International Symposium, 1997, Arizona State University (Tempe). Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 587pp.
TAYLOR, EDITH L., CARLY M. HARTER, AND THOMAS N. TAYLOR: Plant-animal interactions in the Triassic of Antarctica. Abstract, 1998 Annual Meeting of the Botanical Society of America, 2-6 August, 1998 Baltimore.
! Thomas N. Taylor and Michael Krings (2005): Fossil microorganisms and land plants: Associations and interactions. PDF file, SYMBIOSIS, 40: 119-135.
Leonard B. Thien, Hiroshi Azuma, and Shoichi Kawano: New Perspectives on the Pollination Biology of Basal Angiosperms. Abstract, International Journal of Plant Sciences, volume 161 (2000).
Bruce H. Tiffney, UC Santa Barbara: Tracking the Course of Evolution (hosted by UCMP), Plants and Their Predators Through Time. A ramble through the positive and negative (from the plant's point of view) interactions between terrestrial plants and those insects and vertebrates who feed upon them. Examine TWO GRAPHICS showing (1) a simple time line of plant predation and (2) the relationship of plant diversification and the phylogeny of vertebrate plant predators.
Bruce H. Tiffney, University of California, Santa Barbara (Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs): Dinosaurs and Plants.
D.V. Vasilenko and A.P. Rasnitsyn (2007): Fossil Ovipositions of Dragonflies: Review and Interpretation. Abstract, PDF file; see also here.
Virginia Museum of Natural History: Dr. Fraser Discovers New Triassic Life Forms in Virginia Fossils (Insect life).
!
Wang Xiaofeng et al. (2009):
The Triassic Guanling fossil Group - A key GeoPark from
Barren Mountain, Guizhou Province, China.
A colony of Traumatocrinus sp. attached by root cirri to an agatized piece of
driftwood!
PDF file, from:
Jere H. Lipps and Bruno R.C. Granier (eds.) 2009, (e-book,
hosted by Carnets):
PaleoParks - The
protection and conservation of fossil sites worldwide.
Also available from
here.
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Ancient Insect-Plant Relationship Persists through Time.
Charles E. Weber, Hendersonville NC: DID THE WOOD ROACH OR PROTOTERMITE CAUSE THE PERMIAN - TRIASSIC COAL HIATUS?
Peter Wilf, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA: Commentary and media items, and online accessable publications.
Peter Wilf, Museum of Paleontology and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Ancient insect-plant relationship persists through time. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Highlight, October, 2000. See also: Commentary, reporting, and interviews about Peter Wilf's research.
P. Wilf and C. C. Labandeira, Response of plant-insect associations to Paleocene-Eocene warming. From Science (1999), 284:2153-2156. You can view and print the document using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Wilf, P., C.C. Labandeira, K.R. Johnson, P.D. Coley, and A.D. Cutter. 2001. Insect herbivory, plant defense, and early Cenozoic climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98: 6221-6226; (PDF reprint).
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Herbivore,
Co-evolution, and
Insect.
See also:
Wikipedia Germany:
Koevolution, and
Insekten
(in German).
Andreas Wostri, Austria:
Versteinerte Hölzer (in German).
Petrified wood from all over the world. Go to: !
Interaction animal Plant.
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