Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life

<p>PART I: NUMERICAL METHODS<p>1. Ordination methods and the evaluation of Ediacaran communities </p><p>Matthew E. Clapham. </p><p>2. Exploratory Multivariate Techniques and their Utility for Understanding Ancient Ecosystems </p><p>John W. Huntley </p><p>3. Morphometrics in the Study of Ediacaran Fossil Forms </p><p>Marc Laflamme and Michelle M. Casey. </p><p>4. Analyzing Predation from the Dawn of the Phanerozoic </p><p>Lindsey R. Leighton </p><p>5. Ecospace Utilization during the Ediacaran Radiation and the Cambrian Eco-plosion </p><p>Andrew M. Bush, Richard K. Bambach, and Douglas H. Erwin</p><p>6. Quantifying Bioturbation in Ediacaran and Cambrian Rocks </p><p>Katherine N. Marenco and David J. Bottjer</p><p>7. Assessing the role of skeletons in Early Paleozoic carbonate production: Insights from Cambro-Ordovician strata, western Newfoundland </p><p>Sara B. Pruss and Hannah Clemente</p><p>8. Exploring the Ecological Dynamics of Extinction</p><p>Amelinda E. Webb and Lindsey R. Leighton</p><p>9. Fossils with Little Relief – Using Lasers to Conserve, Image, and Analyse the Ediacara biota </p><p>Jonathan B. Antcliffeand Martin D. Brasier</p><p> </p><p>PART II: TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES</p><p>10. Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman (and fluorescence) spectroscopic imagery of permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic fossils</p><p> J. William Schopf and Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev</p><p>11. X-ray microanalysis of Burgess Shale and similarly preserved fossils </p><p>Patrick J. Orr and Stuart Kearns</p><p>12. Ultrastructural Approaches to the Microfossil Record: Assessing Biological Affinities by use of Transmission Electron Microscopy</p><p>Sebastian Willman and Phoebe A. Cohen</p><p>13. Paleobiological applications of focused ion beam electron microscopy (FIB-EM): An ultrastructural approach to the (micro)fossil record </p><p>James D. Schiffbauer and Shuhai Xiao</p><p>14. Reconstructing deep-time biology with molecular fossils </p><p>Christian Hallmann, Amy Kelly, S. Neal Gupta, and Roger E. Summons</p><p>15. Carbon and Sulfur Stable Isotopic Systems and Their Application in Paleoenvironmental Analysis</p><p>Kathleen A. McFadden and Amy E. Kelly</p></p><p>1. Ordination methods and the evaluation of Ediacaran communities </p><p>Matthew E. Clapham. </p><p>2. Exploratory Multivariate Techniques and their Utility for Understanding Ancient Ecosystems </p><p>John W. Huntley </p><p>3. Morphometrics in the Study of Ediacaran Fossil Forms </p><p>Marc Laflamme and Michelle M. Casey. </p><p>4. Analyzing Predation from the Dawn of the Phanerozoic </p><p>Lindsey R. Leighton </p><p>5. Ecospace Utilization during the Ediacaran Radiation and the Cambrian Eco-plosion </p><p>Andrew M. Bush, Richard K. Bambach, and Douglas H. Erwin</p><p>6. Quantifying Bioturbation in Ediacaran and Cambrian Rocks </p><p>Katherine N. Marenco and David J. Bottjer</p><p>7. Assessing the role of skeletons in Early Paleozoic carbonate production: Insights from Cambro-Ordovician strata, western Newfoundland </p><p>Sara B. Pruss and Hannah Clemente</p><p>8. Exploring the Ecological Dynamics of Extinction</p><p>Amelinda E. Webb and Lindsey R. Leighton</p><p>9. Fossils with Little Relief – Using Lasers to Conserve, Image, and Analyse the Ediacara biota </p><p>Jonathan B. Antcliffeand Martin D. Brasier</p><p> </p><p>PART II: TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES</p><p>10. Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman (and fluorescence) spectroscopic imagery of permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic fossils</p><p> J. William Schopf and Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev</p><p>11. X-ray microanalysis of Burgess Shale and similarly preserved fossils </p><p>Patrick J. Orr and Stuart Kearns</p><p>12. Ultrastructural Approaches to the Microfossil Record: Assessing Biological Affinities by use of Transmission Electron Microscopy</p><p>Sebastian Willman and Phoebe A. Cohen</p><p>13. Paleobiological applications of focused ion beam electron microscopy (FIB-EM): An ultrastructural approach to the (micro)fossil record </p><p>James D. Schiffbauer and Shuhai Xiao</p><p>14. Reconstructing deep-time biology with molecular fossils </p><p>Christian Hallmann, Amy Kelly, S. Neal Gupta, and Roger E. Summons</p><p>15. Carbon and Sulfur Stable Isotopic Systems and Their Application in Paleoenvironmental Analysis</p><p>Kathleen A. McFadden and Amy E. Kelly</p>