Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life

1. Ordination Methods and the Evaluation of Ediacaran Communities
Matthew E. Clapham

2. Exploratory Multivariate Techniques and Their Utility for Understanding Ancient Ecosystems
John Warren Huntley

3. Morphometrics in the Study of Ediacaran Fossil Forms
Marc Laflamme, Michelle M. Casey

4. Analyzing Predation from the Dawn of the Phanerozoic
Lindsey R. Leighton

5. Ecospace Utilization During the Ediacaran Radiation and the Cambrian Eco-explosion
Andrew M. Bush, Richard K. Bambach, Douglas H. Erwin

6. Quantifying Bioturbation in Ediacaran and Cambrian Rocks
Katherine N. Marenco, David J. Bottjer

7. Assessing the Role of Skeletons in Early Paleozoic Carbonate Production: Insights from Cambro-Ordovician Strata, Western Newfoundland
Sara B. Pruss, Hannah Clemente

8. Exploring the Ecological Dynamics of Extinction
Amelinda E. Webb, Lindsey R. Leighton

9. Fossils with Little Relief: Using Lasers to Conserve, Image, and Analyze the Ediacara Biota
Jonathan B. Antcliffe, Martin D. Brasier

10. Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy and Raman (and Fluorescence) Spectroscopic Imagery of Permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic Fossils
J. William Schopf, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev

11. X-Ray Microanalysis of Burgess Shale and Similarly Preserved Fossils
Patrick J. Orr, Stuart L. Kearns

12. Ultrastructural Approaches to the Microfossil Record: Assessing Biological Affinities by Use of Transmission Electron Microscopy
Sebastian Willman, Phoebe A. Cohen

13. Paleobiological Applications of Focused Ion Beam Electron Microscopy (FIB-EM): An Ultrastructural Approach to the (Micro)Fossil Record
James D. Schiffbauer, Shuhai Xiao

14. Reconstructing Deep-Time Biology with Molecular Fossils
Christian Hallmann, Amy E. Kelly, S. Neal Gupta, Roger E. Summons

15. Carbon and Sulfur Stable Isotopic Systems and Their Application in Paleoenvironmental Analysis
Kathleen A. McFadden, Amy E. Kelly

Nyckelord: Earth Sciences, Paleontology, Sedimentology, Statistical Theory and Methods, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Quantitative Geology