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Major mass extinctions.

Michael J. Benton, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol: Biodiversity on land and in the sea. PDF file (now via wayback archive), Geological Journal 36, 211-230.

Donald L. Blanchard: Changing Paleoclimates and Mass Extinctions. 6 pages about a new model for cyclic changes in climate over geological time spans.

! Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther (eds.), Earth Pages, Blackwell Publishing: Paleobiology: A Synthesis (PDF files). Series of concise articles from over 150 leading authorities from around the world. Navigate from the content file. Excellent! Go to: Major Events in the History of Life.

Center for Astrobiology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA: PALEONTOLOGY (now via wayback archive). Lecture overheads and color slides. Go to: Lecture 7 Mass Extinction.

Chris (?), Peripatus Home Page, New Zealand: Paleontology Page, Extinction.

Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources (CGER) 1995 (page images at NAP): Effects of Past Global Change on Life.

Susan Couch, Palaeontology Research Group, University of Bristol: Crazy Theories about Dinosaur Extinction 1850-1998.

! Vincent Courtillot (2003): Evolutionary catastrophes: the science of mass extinction. PDF file, 188 pages, Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing).

Richard Cowen, UC Davis: Tracking the Course of Evolution (hosted by UCMP), EXTINCTION. This Essay, written in 1999, is a chapter from the authors book "History of Life", published by Blackwell Science, Boston, Massachusetts, 2000.

! Douglas H. Erwin, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC: Lessons from the past: Biotic recoveries from mass extinctions. Colloquium Paper, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (PNAS), USA, Vol. 98, Issue 10, 5399-5403, May 8, 2001.

! Google directory: Science > Earth Sciences > Paleontology > Extinction.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., Department of Geology, University of Maryland: Dinosaurs: A Natural History. Lecture notes. See especially: The Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction I: Definitions and Dramatis Personae.

Hooper Virtual Natural History Museum, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Extinctions: Cycles Of Life and Death Through Time. These are student-constructed Web pages. See also: Mass Extinctions Of The Phanerozoic Menu.

David Jablonski, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago: Extinction: Past and present. PDF file, Nature 427: 589; 2004.

David Jablonski, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, IL: Lessons from the past: Evolutionary impacts of mass extinctions. Colloquium Paper, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (PNAS), USA, Vol. 98, Issue 10, 5393-5398, May 8, 2001.

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.

C. V. Looy¹, W. A. Brugman¹, D. L. Dilcher², and H. Visscher¹. ¹Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Utrecht University; ²Paleobotany Laboratory, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville: The delayed resurgence of equatorial forests after the Permian-Triassic ecologic crisis. PNAS Online, Vol. 96, Issue 24, 13857-13862, November 23, 1999.

Stephen A. Nelson, Tulane University, New Orleans: Natural Disasters. An examination of the causes, effects, and options available to mitigate natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, subsidence, flooding, severe weather, and meteorite impacts. Go to: Meteorites, Impacts, and Mass Extinction.

Peripatus Homepage (?): Extinction.

Hermann W. Pfefferkorn, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: Commentary: Recuperation from Mass Extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences v.96, i.24 23nov99.

Hugh Rance, City University of New York: The Present is the Key to the Past. An electronic, college level, introductory historical geology textbook.

! 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.

Helen M. Regan, Richard Lupia, Andrew N. Drinnan, and Mark A. Burgman: The Currency and Tempo of Extinction. PDF file; the american naturalist vol. 157, no. 1, january 2001. This study examines estimates of extinction rates for the current purported biotic crisis and from the fossil record.

Sue Rigby, Geology, Geophysics, Environmental Geoscience, Grant Institute, University of Edinburgh: COURSE MATERIALS. Go to: GEP COURSE MATERIALS, Lecture 6: Extinctions - a global environmental process. PDF file.

Hartmut Seyfried und Reinhold Leinfelder, Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Stuttgart: Meeresspiegelschwankungen - Ursachen, Folgen, Wechselwirkungen. In German. Go to: Meeresspiegel und biologische Krisen.

Roger Summons and Tanja Bosak, MIT OpenCourseWare: Geobiology. This course introduces the concept of life as a geological agent and examines the interaction between biology and the earth system during the roughly four billion years since life first appeared. Go to: Lecture Notes. See especially: Mass extinctions (PDF file).

Ralph E. Taggart, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology/Department of Geological Sciences at Michigan State University, East Lansing: BOT335 Lecture Schedule. K/T Boundary Impact Hypothesis.

Ellen Thomas, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut: Biodiversity - Invasive Species - Mass Extinctions.

Han van Konijnenburg-van Cittert et al.: Vegetation successsion through the end-Permian ecologic crisis. (Powerpoint presentatation). See also here. Abstract, Workshop on Permian - Triassic Paleobotany and Palynology, June 16-18, 2005; Natural Science Museum of South Tyrol, Bolzano, Italy.

Bruce Walsh, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona: Extinction. Summary notes on the phenomena of extinction.

Helmut Weissert Geologie, ETH Zürich: Evolution der Biosphäre. Bilder aus der Erdgeschichte. PDF file, in German.

WGBH Educational Foundation and Clear Blue Sky Productions, Inc.: Evolution, Patterns of Extinction.

! P.B. Wignall (2001): Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions. PDF file, Earth-Science Reviews, 53: 1-33.

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