Biotic Response to Global Change

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.