List of contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction Stephen J. Culver and Peter
F. Rawson; 2. The Cretaceous world Andrew S. Gale; 3. The Cenozoic world
Kevin T. Pickering; 4. Calcareous nannoplankton and global climate change
Jackie A. Burnett, Jeremy R. Young and Paul R. Bown; 5. Phenotypic response
of foraminifera to episodes of global environmental change Norman Macleod,
Nievez Ortiz, Nina Fefferman, William Clyde, Christine Schulter and Jena
Maclean; 6. The response of planktonic formanifera to the Late Pliocene
intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation Mark R. Chapman; 7. The
response of Cretaceous cephalopods to global change Peter F. Rawson; 8.
Global change and the fossil fish record: the relevance of systematics
Peter Forey; 9. Response of shallow water foraminiferal paleocommunities to
global and regional environmental change Stephen J. Culver and Martin A.
Buzas; 10. Intrinsic and extrinsic controls on the diversification of the
Bivalvia J. Alistair Crame; 11. Global events and biotic interaction as
controls on the evolution of gastropods Noel Morris and John Taylor; 12.
Algal symbiosis, and the collapse and recovery of reef communities: Lazarus
corals across the K-T boundary Brian R. Rosen; 13. Changes in the
diversity, taxic composition and life-history patterns of echinoids over
the past 145 million years Andrew B. Smith and Charlotte H. Jeffery; 14.
Origin of the modern bryozoan fauna Paul D. Taylor; 15. Angiosperm
diversification and Cretaceous environmental change Richard Lupia, Peter R.
Crane and Scott Lidgard; 16. Cenozoic evolution of modern plant communities
and vegetation Margaret E. Collinson; 17. Leaf physiognomy and climate
change Robert A. Spicer; 18. Biotic response to Late Quaternary global
change - the pollen record: a case study from the Upper Thames Valley,
England Adrian G. Parker; 19. The Cretaceous and Cenozoic record of insects
(Hexapoda) with regard to global change Andrew J. Ross, Ed A. Jarzembowski
and Stephen J. Brooks; 20. The palaeoclimatological significance of Late
Cenozoic Coleoptera: familiar species in very unfamiliar circumstances G.
Russell Coope; 21. Amphibians, reptiles and birds: a biogeographical review
Angela C. Milner, Andrew R. Milner and Susan E. Evans; 22. Paleogene
mammals: crises and ecological change Jeremy J. Hooker; 23. Response of Old
World terrestrial vertebrate biotas to Neogene climate change Peter J.
Whybrow and Peter Andrews; 24. Mammalian response to global change in the
later Quaternary of the British Isles Andrew Currant; 25. Human evolution:
how an African primate became global Chris Stringer; 26. The biotic
response to global change: a summary Stephen J. Culver and Peter F. Rawson;
References; Index.
