Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record

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Patricia Kelley, Michal Kowalewski, Thor A. Hansen
Springer Science & Business Media, 31 jan 2003 - 464 pagina's
From the Foreword:
"Predator-prey interactions are among the most significant of all organism-organism interactions....It will only be by compiling and evaluating data on predator-prey relations as they are recorded in the fossil record that we can hope to tease apart their role in the tangled web of evolutionary interaction over time. This volume, compiled by a group of expert specialists on the evidence of predator-prey interactions in the fossil record, is a pioneering effort to collate the information now accumulating in this important field. It will be a standard reference on which future study of one of the central dynamics of ecology as seen in the fossil record will be built."
(Richard K. Bambach, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Tech, Associate of the Botanical Museum, Harvard University)
 

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Introduction
1
Chapter
2
Predation on and by Foraminifera
7
Chapter
17
Predation in Fossil Foraminifera
21
Future Research 27 22230
27
Predation in Ancient ReefBuilders
33
Introduction
34
Predation on Crinoids
263
Conclusion
275
Predation on Recent and Fossil Echinoids
279
The Fossil Record of Predation and Parasitism on Echinoids
291
Summary
297
Predation of Fishes in the Fossil Record
303
Evidence of Fish Predation from the Fossil Record
311
Summary
322

The Rise of Biological Disturbance in Reef Ecosystems
43
Discussion and Future Work
49
Trilobites in Paleozoic PredatorPrey Systems and Their Role
55
Predation by Trilobites
56
85
63
Predation on and by Trilobites in the Context of Ecosystem
81
Predation by Drills on Ostracoda
93
Chapter 6 The Fossil Record of ShellBreaking Predation on Marine Bivalves
141
Background
179
Lethal Predation on Upper Carboniferous Coiled Nautiloids and Ammonoids
187
Studies of Predation and Cephalopods Through Time
206
Predation on Brachiopods
215
Methods
222
After the Paleozoic
229
Predation on Bryozoans and its Reflection in the Fossil Record
239
Fossil Record of Predation
245
Summary and Conclusions
256
Introduction
260
Theropod Ecomorphology
330
Prey Defenses
337
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341
Fossil Evidence
350
Summary
356
Early Human Predation
359
PredatorPrey Interactions during Human Evolutionary History
365
Conclusion
371
The Ecotone Model
385
Summary
396
Paleozoic Predators
402
Possible Consequences of Predator Escalation
418
Tests of the Mid Paleozoic Escalation Hypothesis and a Preliminary Model
426
The Mesozoic Marine Revolution
433
Prey Responses to Increasing Threat of the MMR
440
Discussion and Future Directions
447
Index
457
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