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BBC Earth timeline.
Major
mass extinctions.
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.
B. Cascales-Miñana and C.J. Cleal (2011): Plant fossil record and survival analyses. Abstract, Lethaia.
! 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.
! Vincent Courtillot (2003): Evolutionary catastrophes: the science of mass extinction. PDF file, 188 pages, Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing).
Richard Cowen, Tracking the Course of Evolution: Extinctions, Mass Extinctions.
! T.J. Crowley and G.R. North (1988): Abrupt climate change and extinction events in earth history. PDF file, Science, 240.
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).
D.H. Erwin (2008): Extinction as the loss of evolutionary history. PDF file, PNAS, 105: 11520-11527. See also here.
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 (2009), Earth magazine, The American Geological Institute: 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.
! The Full Wiki Project (an independent publishing company based in Sydney, Australia): Extinction events: Reference.
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.
! Google directory: Science > Earth Sciences > Paleontology > Extinction.
Walton A. Green et al. (2011): Does extinction wield an axe or pruning shears? How interactions between phylogeny and ecology affect patterns of extinction. PDF file, Paleobiology, 37: 72-91.
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.
Richard A. Kerr (2011): Was the "Dinosaur Killer" Unfairly Charged? Science.
M. Konzalová (1994): Some remarks from paleobotany and paleontology to adaptation of plants to the stress condition and survival. PDF file, Geolines, 1.
! Jennifer C. McElwain and Surangi W. Punyasena (2007): Mass extinction events and the plant fossil record. PDF file, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 22: 548-557. See also here (abstract).
Jennifer C. McElwain, UCD Earth Systems Institute, Dublin: Climate change and mass extinction: What can we learn from 200 million year old plants? 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.
Peripatus Homepage (?): 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.
! Shanan E. Peters (2008): Environmental determinants of extinction selectivity in the fossil record. PDF file, Nature, Vol. 454.
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).
Michael R. Rampino (2010): Mass extinctions of life and catastrophic flood basalt volcanism. PDF file, PNAS, 107: 6555-6556. See also here.
! D.M. Raup, PNAS Online: The Role of Extinction in Evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol 91, 6758-6763. See also here (PDF).
! D.M. D.M. Raup and J.J. Sepkoski Jr. (1982): Mass extinctions in the marine fossil record. PDF file, Science.
Gregory J. Retallack (2011): Exceptional fossil preservation during CO2 greenhouse crises? Abstract, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
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.
Sarda Sahney et al. (2010): Rainforest collapse triggered Carboniferous tetrapod diversification in Euramerica. PDF file, Geology, 38: 1079-1082. See also here, and there (abstract).
P.W. Signor III and J.H. Lipps (1982): Sampling bias, gradual extinction patterns and catastrophes in the fossil record. In PDF, Geological Society of America.
Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Blast from the Past!
! 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.
! Vivi Vajda and Stephen McLoughlin (2007): Extinction and recovery patterns of the vegetation across the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary - a tool for unravelling the causes of the end-Permian mass-extinction. PDF file, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 144: 99-112.
! Steve C. Wang and Andrew M. Bush (2008): Adjusting global extinction rates to account for taxonomic susceptibility. Abstract, Paleobiology,34: 434-455.
! P.B. Wignall (2001): Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions. PDF file, Earth-Science Reviews, 53: 1-33.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
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Peter Wilf et al. (2006): Decoupled Plant and Insect Diversity After the End-Cretaceous Extinction. PDF file, Science, 313.
David B. Williams (2010), Earth magazine, The American Geological Institute: Do impacts trigger extinctions? Impact theory still controversial.
! S.A. Wooldridge (2008): Mass extinctions past and present: a unifying hypothesis. PDF file, Biogeosciences Discuss., 5: 2401-2423.
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