Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls
Published on 30. August 2011
424 pages
978-0-08-086842-4 (ISBN)
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Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls
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A.J. Boucot
Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls: Volume 1
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01/1975
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Content
- Front Cover
- Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Estimating Size of Interbreeding Population for a Species
- Stratigraphic Framework
- Chapter 2. Silurian-Devonian Community Framework
- Overlapping Ranges of Taxa
- What is a Community?
- Benthic Assemblage and Community Continuity
- The Use of "Rare", "Common", and Poorly Studied Taxa for Characterizing Communities and Biogeographic Units
- Level-Bottom Community Classification
- Significance of the Low-Diversity Communities
- Recognition of Community Mixtures
- Shell Transportation and Mixing
- Macrotidal and Microtidal Consequences
- Anderson's Model
- Modern Continental-Shelf Environments Versus Ancient Platform Environments
- Absolute Depth
- Province and Community Extent
- Number of Level-Bottom Communities
- Chapter 3. Rates of Evolution
- Point Sources, Marginal Sources, Broad Sources and Rates of Evolution
- Absolute Time and Relative Time
- Platform Versus Continental-Shelf Population Size Estimation
- Some Thoughts About Diversity
- Diversity, Rates of Evolution, and Climatic Correlation
- Level-Bottom Diversity, Reef Diversity, Rocky-Bottom Diversity and Rates of Evolution
- Reef Environments in Time
- Worldwide and Regional Taxic-Diversity Gradients
- Biogeographic Units, Reefs and Islands
- Competition and Rates of Evolution
- Rates of Evolution and Extinction, Biomass and Species Diversity
- their Relation to Nutrient Supply
- Rates of Evolution in "Higher" and "Lower", Marine and Terrestrial, Mobile and Sessile Forms as Viewed from the Population-Size Position
- Total Number of Species in the Record
- Silurian-Devonian Evolutionary Rates and Patterns for Brachiopods Measuring Rate of Evolution
- Rate of Extinction
- Worldwide Extinction Events
- Extinction Survivors
- Chapter 4. Conclusions About Evolution and Extinction
- Overall Synthesis of Population-Size Effects
- Early and Middle Devonian
- The Permo-Triassic Change
- The Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary Change
- Reasons for Differing Reef Abundances in Time
- Deep Sea
- Explosive Evolution?
- Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift
- Correlation by Means of Fossils and Precision
- Geographic Speciation
- Geographic Speciation, Completeness of the Fossil Record and Rates of Evolution
- Part II. Supporting Paleoecologic and Biogeographic Data
- Chapter 5. Silurian-Devonian Community and Biogeographic History
- Late Ordovician, Ashgill Background
- Siluro-Devonian Communities
- Devonian
- Community Evolution
- Community Succession
- Lower Paleozoic Gastropod Diversity, Abundances and Potential Predator: Prey Relation
- Chapter 6. Abundant Taxa Characteristic of Siluro-Devonian Level-Bottom Communities
- Chapter 7. Biogeographic Framework
- Provincialism or Environment
- Biogeographic Unit or Ecologic Unit?
- Biogeographic Units
- Causes of Provincialism and Faunal Barriers to Migration
- Silurian Biogeography
- Absence of Intermediate Forms
- Biogeographic Distribution of Other Groups
- Synchroneity in the Initiation and Termination of Provincialism
- The Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Question
- Part III. Summary
- Chapter 8. Conclusions
- Evolution Rate Conclusions
- Silurian-Devonian Biogeographic Conclusions
- Rate of Extinction
- Hypersaline Water as a Biogeographic Barrier
- Unimportance of Dolomitization as a Biogeographic Barrier
- Species Diversity
- Environmental Stability of Taxa During Evolution
- Appendix I. Description of New Taxa for a Better Understanding of the Silurian and Devonian Problems Discussed
- Superfamily Enteletacea
- Superfamily Porambonitacea
- Subgenus Savageina new subgenus
- Superfamily Pentameracea
- Superfamily Chonetacea
- Superfamily Atrypacea
- Superfamily Spiriferacea
- Superfamily Stringocephalacea King, 1850
- Appendix II. Supporting Comments for Stratigraphic Range Data and Taxonomic Relationship Information Shown in Fig.27
- Notes
- References
- Index
