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Michael J. Benton, The Palaeobiology and Biodiversity Research Group, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK: Reprints by Michael J. Benton (PDF files).
The Geological Society of America: GSA Annual Meeting, November 5-8, 2001, Boston, Massachusetts: Stratigraphy I: Impacts and Extinctions.
! Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond Conference, University of Vienna, Austria (Sunday, July 9, 2000, to Wednesday, July 12, 2000). Go to: Preliminary Program and Abstracts (PDF format). To use this file, click on the name of the session, and when the full program listing appears, click on the title of a presentation to view the abstract.
Philippe Claeys, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley: When the sky fell on our heads: Identification and interpretation of impact products in the sedimentary record. U.S. National Report to IUGG, 1991-1994, Rev. Geophys. Vol. 33 Suppl.; 1995. American Geophysical Union.
Richard Cowen, Tracking the Course of Evolution: Extinctions, Mass Extinctions.
Mark Dalton, Cray Research,Inc., Los Alamos: Extinction pages. An index page without annotations.
Allen A. Debus, Fossil News: The Art of Paleocatastrophe. How paleoartists have portrayed catastrophic events in life´s past.
! dmoz, open directory project: Science: Earth Sciences: Paleontology: Extinction.
Geological Society of America: GSA Annual Meeting, October 27-30, 2002, Denver, CO: Abstracts. Go to: Paleontology/Paleobotany V: Diversity Dynamics and Extinctions.
Geological Society of America, Geological Society of London. Earth System Processes - Global Meeting (June 24-28, 2001) Edinburgh: Technical Sessions. Abstracts. Go to: Controls on Phanerozoic Diversifications and Extinctions: Long-Term Interactions Between the Physical and Biotic Realms, and Critical Transitions in Earth History and Their Causes, and Critical Transitions in Earth History and Their Causes (Posters).
Mike Farabee, Estrella Mountain Community College Center, Avondale, Arizona: On-Line Biology Book. Introductory biology lecture notes. Go to: THE BIOSPHERE AND MASS EXTINCTIONS.
Brian Fisher Johnson, EARTH, (2009): Deciphering mass extinctions. "What the planet´s past mass extinctions tell us about the future of life on Earth".
Michael Foote, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago: Origination and Extinction through the Phanerozoic: A New Approach. Analyzing the observed first and last appearances of marine animal and microfossil genera. PDF file, The Journal of Geology, 2003, volume 111, p. 125–148.
! J.C. Gall (2009): Terre et Vie: des histoires imbriquées (in French, with an abridged English version p. 106). PDF file, Comptes Rendus Palevol, 8: 105-117.
Geolor, Geoteach.Com: List of Short Exercises. Exercises cover a variety of earth science topics with accompanying references.
M.B. Hart (ed.): Biotic Recovery From Mass Extinction Events. Book announcement, GSL Special Publications, 1996.
Christa-Ch. Hofmann, Institute of Palaeontology, University of Vienna: Pollen and spores tell nearly everything...- and often nothing. Abstract, The International Plant Taphonomy Meeting 2002, Bonn, Goldfuss Museum, Institute of Paleontology, Germany.
R.B. Huey et al. (2002): Plants versus animals: do they deal with stress in different ways? PDF file, Integrative and Comparative Biology, 42: 415-423.
David Jablonski, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago: The interplay of physical and biotic factors in macroevolution. PDF file, In: A. Lister and L. Rothschild, eds., Evolution on Planet Earth: The impact of the physical environment. New York: Academic Press, 235-252; 2003.
David Jablonski, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago: Extinction: Past and present. PDF file, Nature 427: 589; 2004.
! Kelber, K.-P. (2003): Sterben und Neubeginn im Spiegel der Paläofloren. PDF file (17 MB!), in German. Plant evolution, the fossil record of plants and the aftermath of mass extinction events. pp. 38-59, 212-215; In: Hansch, W. (ed.): Katastrophen in der Erdgeschichte - Wendezeiten des Lebens.- museo 19, Heilbronn.
M. Konzalová (1994): Some remarks from paleobotany and paleontology to adaptation of plants to the stress condition and survival. PDF file, Geolines, 1.
J.C. McElwain and S.W. Punyasena (2007):
Mass extinction events
and the plant fossil record.
Abstract, Trends Ecol Evol., 22: 548-57. See also
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(PDF file).
Stephen A. Nelson, Department of Geology, Tulane University. New Orleans, LA: Natural Disasters, Meteorites, Impacts, and Mass Extinction.
Michael J. Novacek and Elsa E. Cleland (2001): The current biodiversity extinction event: Scenarios for mitigation and recovery. Abstract, PNAS, 98: 5466-5470.
! Paul E. Olsen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY: Dinosaurs and the History of Life. Go to: Lecture 23 - The Impact Theory of Mass Extinction. The general pattern of extinctions.
PBS, Alexandria, Virginia (PBS is a private, non-profit media enterprise owned and operated by the US 349 public television stations): Evolution. This online course is intended to deepen the understanding of evolution with extensive content-rich materials, interactive exercises, primary source readings and in depth exploration of scientific concepts. Go to: Extinction.
David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle: Mass extinction comes every 62 million years, UC physicists discover.
Shanan E. Peters, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Sepkoski's Online Genus Database. The purpose of this database is to allow users to easily search and summarize Sepkoski's global genus compendium on the basis of Evolutionary Fauna, Phylum, or Class.
P David Polly, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN:
Historical Geology. Life through time.
Lecture notes. Topics are paleontology, geologic time, biological evolution,
plate tectonics, ancient environments, and climate change,
principles of interpreting earth history from geological data, etc. Go to:
Lecture 21:
Mesozoic 2: Terrestrial environments and extinction.
Lecture slides (PDF file).
Bruce Runnegar, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, (Center for Astrobiology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA: UCLA ESS116 PALEONTOLOGY FALL 2002. Images and schemes. Go to: Mass extinction.
Robert Sanders, Public Affairs, NEWS RELEASE, 4/22/99; University of California at Berkeley: New evidence links mass extinction with massive eruptions that split Pangea supercontinent and created the Atlantic 200 million years ago.
Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Blast from the Past!
Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson: Stratigraphy, Sedimentology & Paleontology, Lab 12 Mass Extinction Events. An index page.
! R.J. Twitchett et al. (2006): The palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental analysis of mass extinction events. PDF file, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 232: 190-213.
David Ulansey, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco: Mass Extinction Underway. A number of reports, articles, and Web sites dealing with what many now call the sixth extinction. Visit the Mass Extinction Links.
! Steve C. Wang and Andrew M. Bush (2008): Adjusting global extinction rates to account for taxonomic susceptibility. Abstract, Paleobiology,34: 434-455.
! S.A. Wooldridge (2008): Mass extinctions past and present: a unifying hypothesis. PDF file, Biogeosciences Discuss., 5: 2401-2423.
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