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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 207 (2004) 423 – 424 www.elsevier.com/locate/palaeo
Contents Volume 207 (2004) Research Papers Stability in Pleistocene Mediterranean mammalian communities J. Rodrı´guez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wildfires in the Late Palaeozoic of Central Europe—an overview of the Rotliegend (Upper Carboniferous – Lower Permian) of the Saar – Nahe Basin (SW-Germany) D. Uhl, S. Lausberg, R. Noll and K.R.G. Stapf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arid climate 2.5 Ma in the Plio-Pleistocene Valdarno Basin (Northern Apennines, Italy) M. Ghinassi, M. Magi, M. Sagri and B.S. Singer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estimating minimum global species diversity for groups with a poor fossil record: a case study of Late Jurassic – Eocene lissamphibians E. Fara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quantitative taphonomic analysis and taphofacies in lower Pliocene temperate carbonate – siliciclastic mixed platform deposits (Almerı´aNı´jar basin, SE Spain) J. Yesares-Garcı´a and J. Aguirre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Periodic components in the diversity of calcareous plankton and geological events over the past 230 Myr A. Prokoph, M.R. Rampino and H. El Bilali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sensitivity of the ocean – atmosphere carbon cycle to ice-covered and ice-free conditions in the Nordic Seas during the Last Glacial Maximum M. Schulz and A. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Late Miocene paleoenvironment of Afghanistan as inferred from dental microwear in artiodactyls G. Merceron, C. Blondel, M. Brunet, S. Sen, N. Solounias, L. Viriot and E. Heintz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A discontinuous ca. 80 ka record of Late Quaternary environmental change from Lake Omapere, Northland, New Zealand R.M. Newnham, D.J. Lowe, J.D. Green, G.M. Turner, M.A. Harper, M.S. McGlone, S.L. Stout, S. Horie and P.C. Froggatt .
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Special Issue Evolution of grass-dominated ecosystems during the late Cenozoic Edited by Caroline A.E. Stro¨mberg and Robert S. Feranec Introduction The evolution of grass-dominated ecosystems during the late Cenozoic C.A.E. Stro¨mberg and R.S. Feranec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Research Papers Late Oligocene bunch grassland and early Miocene sod grassland paleosols from central Oregon, USA G.J. Retallack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using phytolith assemblages to reconstruct the origin and spread of grass-dominated habitats in the great plains of North America during the late Eocene to early Miocene C.A.E. Stro¨mberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Modern calibration of phytolith carbon isotope signatures for C3/C4 paleograssland reconstruction F.A. Smith and J.W.C. White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carbon and oxygen isotopic variability in Neogene paleosol carbonates: constraints on the evolution of the C4-grasslands of the Great Plains, USA D.L. Fox and P.L. Koch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The effects of late Quaternary climate and pCO2 change on C4 plant abundance in the south-central United States P.L. Koch, N.S. Diffenbaugh and K.A. Hoppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geographic variation in the diet of hypsodont herbivores from the Rancholabrean of Florida R.S. Feranec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The species richness of Miocene browsers, and implications for habitat type and primary productivity in the North American grassland biome C.M. Janis, J. Damuth and J.M. Theodor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The expansion of grassland ecosystems in Africa in relation to mammalian evolution and the origin of the genus Homo R. Bobe and A.K. Behrensmeyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Volume 207 (2004) Research Papers Stability in Pleistocene Mediterranean mammalian communities J. Rodrı´guez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wildfires in the Late Palaeozoic of Central Europe—an overview of the Rotliegend (Upper Carboniferous – Lower Permian) of the Saar – Nahe Basin (SW-Germany) D. Uhl, S. Lausberg, R. Noll and K.R.G. Stapf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arid climate 2.5 Ma in the Plio-Pleistocene Valdarno Basin (Northern Apennines, Italy) M. Ghinassi, M. Magi, M. Sagri and B.S. Singer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estimating minimum global species diversity for groups with a poor fossil record: a case study of Late Jurassic – Eocene lissamphibians E. Fara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quantitative taphonomic analysis and taphofacies in lower Pliocene temperate carbonate – siliciclastic mixed platform deposits (Almerı´aNı´jar basin, SE Spain) J. Yesares-Garcı´a and J. Aguirre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Periodic components in the diversity of calcareous plankton and geological events over the past 230 Myr A. Prokoph, M.R. Rampino and H. El Bilali . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sensitivity of the ocean – atmosphere carbon cycle to ice-covered and ice-free conditions in the Nordic Seas during the Last Glacial Maximum M. Schulz and A. Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Late Miocene paleoenvironment of Afghanistan as inferred from dental microwear in artiodactyls G. Merceron, C. Blondel, M. Brunet, S. Sen, N. Solounias, L. Viriot and E. Heintz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A discontinuous ca. 80 ka record of Late Quaternary environmental change from Lake Omapere, Northland, New Zealand R.M. Newnham, D.J. Lowe, J.D. Green, G.M. Turner, M.A. Harper, M.S. McGlone, S.L. Stout, S. Horie and P.C. Froggatt .
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Special Issue Evolution of grass-dominated ecosystems during the late Cenozoic Edited by Caroline A.E. Stro¨mberg and Robert S. Feranec Introduction The evolution of grass-dominated ecosystems during the late Cenozoic C.A.E. Stro¨mberg and R.S. Feranec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Research Papers Late Oligocene bunch grassland and early Miocene sod grassland paleosols from central Oregon, USA G.J. Retallack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using phytolith assemblages to reconstruct the origin and spread of grass-dominated habitats in the great plains of North America during the late Eocene to early Miocene C.A.E. Stro¨mberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Modern calibration of phytolith carbon isotope signatures for C3/C4 paleograssland reconstruction F.A. Smith and J.W.C. White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carbon and oxygen isotopic variability in Neogene paleosol carbonates: constraints on the evolution of the C4-grasslands of the Great Plains, USA D.L. Fox and P.L. Koch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The effects of late Quaternary climate and pCO2 change on C4 plant abundance in the south-central United States P.L. Koch, N.S. Diffenbaugh and K.A. Hoppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Geographic variation in the diet of hypsodont herbivores from the Rancholabrean of Florida R.S. Feranec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The species richness of Miocene browsers, and implications for habitat type and primary productivity in the North American grassland biome C.M. Janis, J. Damuth and J.M. Theodor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The expansion of grassland ecosystems in Africa in relation to mammalian evolution and the origin of the genus Homo R. Bobe and A.K. Behrensmeyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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