Biotic Response to Global Change

'… contains much of relevance for anyone with an interest in the debate concerning global environmental change …' PRISCUM

• List of contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction Stephen J. Culver and Peter F. Rawson; 2. The Cretaceous world Andrew S. Gale; 3. The Cenozoic world Kevin T. Pickering; 4. Calcareous nannoplankton and global climate change Jackie A. Burnett, Jeremy R. Young and Paul R. Bown; 5. Phenotypic response of foraminifera to episodes of global environmental change Norman Macleod, Nievez Ortiz, Nina Fefferman, William Clyde, Christine Schulter and Jena Maclean; 6. The response of planktonic formanifera to the Late Pliocene intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation Mark R. Chapman; 7. The response of Cretaceous cephalopods to global change Peter F. Rawson; 8. Global change and the fossil fish record: the relevance of systematics Peter Forey; 9. Response of shallow water foraminiferal paleocommunities to global and regional environmental change Stephen J. Culver and Martin A. Buzas; 10. Intrinsic and extrinsic controls on the diversification of the Bivalvia J. Alistair Crame; 11. Global events and biotic interaction as controls on the evolution of gastropods Noel Morris and John Taylor; 12. Algal symbiosis, and the collapse and recovery of reef communities: Lazarus corals across the K-T boundary Brian R. Rosen; 13. Changes in the diversity, taxic composition and life-history patterns of echinoids over the past 145 million years Andrew B. Smith and Charlotte H. Jeffery; 14. Origin of the modern bryozoan fauna Paul D. Taylor; 15. Angiosperm diversification and Cretaceous environmental change Richard Lupia, Peter R. Crane and Scott Lidgard; 16. Cenozoic evolution of modern plant communities and vegetation Margaret E. Collinson; 17. Leaf physiognomy and climate change Robert A. Spicer; 18. Biotic response to Late Quaternary global change - the pollen record: a case study from the Upper Thames Valley, England Adrian G. Parker; 19. The Cretaceous and Cenozoic record of insects (Hexapoda) with regard to global change Andrew J. Ross, Ed A. Jarzembowski and Stephen J. Brooks; 20. The palaeoclimatological significance of Late Cenozoic Coleoptera: familiar species in very unfamiliar circumstances G. Russell Coope; 21. Amphibians, reptiles and birds: a biogeographical review Angela C. Milner, Andrew R. Milner and Susan E. Evans; 22. Paleogene mammals: crises and ecological change Jeremy J. Hooker; 23. Response of Old World terrestrial vertebrate biotas to Neogene climate change Peter J. Whybrow and Peter Andrews; 24. Mammalian response to global change in the later Quaternary of the British Isles Andrew Currant; 25. Human evolution: how an African primate became global Chris Stringer; 26. The biotic response to global change: a summary Stephen J. Culver and Peter F. Rawson; References; Index.