Quantifying the evolution of early life : numerical approaches to the evaluation of fossils and ancient ecosystems
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Dordrecht; New York
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Springer
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xx, 462 p.: ill. )some col.(, maps ; 24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Topics in geobiology; v.63
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references and index
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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Marc Laflamme, James D. Schiffbauer, Stephen Q. Dornbos, editors
CONTENTS NOTE
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Ordination methods and the evaluation of Ediacaran communities/ Matthew E. Clapham -- Exploratory multivariate techniques and their utility for understanding ancient ecosystems / John W. Huntley -- Morphometrics in the study of Ediacaran fossil forms/ Marc Laflamme and Michelle M. Casey -- Analyzing predation from the dawn of the Phanerozoic/ Lindsey R. Leighton -- Ecospace utilization during the Ediacaran radiation and the Cambrian eco-explosion/ Andrew M. Bush, Richard K. Bambach, and Douglas H. Erwin -- Quantifying bioturbation in Ediacaran and Cambrian rocks/ Katherine N. Marenco and David J. Bottjer -- Assessing the role of skeletons in early Paleozoic carbonate production : insights from Cambro-Ordovician strata, western Newfoundland/ Sara B. Pruss and Hannah Clemente/ Exploring the ecological dynamics of extinction/ Amelinda E. Webb and Lindsey R. Leighton -- Fossils with little relief : using lasers to conserve, image, and analyse the Ediacara biota/ Jonathan B. Antcliffe and Martin D. Brasier -- Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman )and fluorescence( spectroscopic imagery of permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic fossils/ J. William Schopf and Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev -- X-ray microanalysis of Burgess Shale and similarly preserved fossils/ Patrick J. Orr and Stuart L. Kearns -- Ultrastructural approaches to the microfossil record : assessing biological affinities by use of transmission electron microscopy/ Sebastian Willman and Phoebe A. Cohen -- Paleobiological applications of focused ion beam electron microscopy )FIB-EM( : an ultrastructural approach to the )micro(fossil record/ James D. Schiffbauer and Shuhai Xiao -- Reconstructing deep-time biology with molecular fossils/ Christian Hallmann ... ]et al.[ -- Carbon and sulfur stable isotopic systems and their application in paleoenvironmental analysis/ Kathleen A. McFadden and Amy E. Kelly
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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Mathematical models ، Evolutionary paleobiology
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Mathematical models ، Paleontology -- Proterozoic
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Mathematical models ، Paleontology -- Cambrian
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Mathematical models ، Paleoecology -- Proterozoic
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Mathematical models ، Paleoecology -- Cambrian
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Methodology ، Paleontology
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Methodology ، Paleoecology
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Mathematical models ، Evolution )Biology(
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
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560
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721
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E85
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2011
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