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Author:: Krug, Andrew Zachary
Title:: TAXIC AND PHYLOGENETIC APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING THE LATE ORDOVICIAN MASS EXTINCTION AND EARLY SILURIAN RECOVERY
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: recovery
mass extinction
Late Ordovician
diversity
File:: Download Andrew_Z._Krug_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
Alan Walker, Committee Member

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Author:: Currano, Ellen Diane
Title:: VARIATIONS IN INSECT HERBIVORY ON ANGIOSPERM LEAVES THROUGH THE LATE PALEOCENE AND EARLY EOCENE IN THE BIGHORN BASIN, WYOMING, USA
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
insect herbivory
plant-insect interactions
Bighorn Basin
global warming
File:: Download Thesis_Currano_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Scott W Wing, Committee Member
Conrad C Labandeira, Committee Member
Russell W Graham, Committee Member
Lee Ann Newsom, Committee Member

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Author:: Bonelli, James Rocco
Title:: Linking Paleobiological Patterns Across Geographic Scales: An Example Using Upper Mississippian Fossil Assemblages From The Illinios And Appalachian Basins, USA
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: paleoecology
paleobiology
late Paleozoic Ice Age
biofacies
paleo-biodiversity
File:: Download Bonelli_Final_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Alan Walker, Committee Member

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Author:: Grey, Jacqueline Ashley
Title:: Changes in calcareous nannoplankton assemblages during the recovery of the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: nannoplankton
Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum
PETM recovery
paleoecology
global warming
File:: Download Grey_MS_Thesis_Aug_2017_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Timothy Bralower, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member

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Author:: Christie, Max Lawrence
Title:: Biogeographic, Functional, and Phylogenetic Consequences of the Pliocene to Modern in the Western Atlantic
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Pliocene
Pleistocene
Mollusk
Coastal Plain
Plio-Pleistocene Extinction
Phylogenetics
Functional Ecology
Biogeography
File:: Download Christie_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark E Patzkowsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Todd C Lajeunesse, Outside Member

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Author:: Harris, Gabriella
Title:: EOCENE FOSSILS OF ARAUCARIA SECT. EUTACTA FROM PATAGONIA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR FLORAL TURNOVER DURING THE INITIAL ISOLATION OF SOUTH AMERICA
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Araucaria
Araucariaceae
conifers
EECO
Eocene
Laguna del Hunco
Patagonia
rainforest
Río Pichileufú
total evidence phylogeny
File:: Download Rossetto_Harris_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter Daniel Wilf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Elizabeth Ann Hajek, Committee Member

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Author:: Stiles, Elena
Title:: PLANT EXTINCTION AND RECOVERY DYNAMICS ACROSS THE CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE TRANSITION IN SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Extinction
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Macrofloras
Recovery
Southern Hemisphere
Patagonia
K-Pg
Paleobotany
File:: Download Thesis_Stiles_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter Daniel Wilf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member

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Author:: Sclafani, Judith
Title:: Morphological change in response to mass extinction: a case study of Strophomenida (Brachiopoda) at the Late Ordovician
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: Late Ordovician mass extinction
recovery
morphometrics
paleoecology
evolutionary history
File:: Download DissertationFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark E Patzkowsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
Peter Daniel Wilf, Committee Member
David Peter Hughes, Outside Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Program Head/Chair

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