Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life

Ordination methods and the evaluation of Ediacaran communities / Matthew E. Clapham -- Exploratory multivariate techniques and their utility for understanding ancient ecosystems / John W. Huntley -- Morphometrics in the study of Ediacaran fossil forms / Marc Laflamme and Michelle M. Casey -- Analyzing predation from the dawn of the Phanerozoic / Lindsey R. Leighton -- Ecospace utilization during the Ediacaran radiation and the Cambrian eco-explosion / Andrew M. Bush, Richard K. Bambach, and Douglas H. Erwin -- Quantifying bioturbation in Ediacaran and Cambrian rocks / Katherine N. Marenco and David J. Bottjer -- Assessing the role of skeletons in early Paleozoic carbonate production : insights from Cambro-Ordovician strata, western Newfoundland / Sara B. Pruss and Hannah Clemente / Exploring the ecological dynamics of extinction / Amelinda E. Webb and Lindsey R. Leighton -- Fossils with little relief : using lasers to conserve, image, and analyse the Ediacara biota / Jonathan B. Antcliffe and Martin D. Brasier -- Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman (and fluorescence) spectroscopic imagery of permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic fossils / J. William Schopf and Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev -- X-ray microanalysis of Burgess Shale and similarly preserved fossils / Patrick J. Orr and Stuart L. Kearns -- Ultrastructural approaches to the microfossil record : assessing biological affinities by use of transmission electron microscopy / Sebastian Willman and Phoebe A. Cohen -- Paleobiological applications of focused ion beam electron microscopy (FIB-EM) : an ultrastructural approach to the (micro)fossil record / James D. Schiffbauer and Shuhai Xiao -- Reconstructing deep-time biology with molecular fossils / Christian Hallmann ... [et al.] -- Carbon and sulfur stable isotopic systems and their application in paleoenvironmental analysis / Kathleen A. McFadden and Amy E. Kelly.