文档介绍：Biodiversity Response to Climate Change
in the Middle Pleistocene
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution to this book provided by
the General Endowment Fund of the University of California Press Associates.
Biodiversity Response to Climate Change
in the Middle Pleistocene
The Porcupine Cave Fauna from Colorado
Edited by
ANTHONY D. BARNOSKY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Los Angeles London
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
© 2004 by The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Biodiversity response to climate change in the middle Pleistocene : the
Porcupine Cave fauna from Colorado / edited by Anthony D. Barnosky
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-520-24082-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Vertebrates, Fossil—Colorado—Park County. 2. Paleontology—
Pleistocene. 3. Paleoecology—Colorado—Park County. 4. Paleo-
ecology—Pleistocene. 5. Climatic changes—Environmental aspects—
Colorado—Park County—History. 6. Animals, Fossil—Colorado—
Park County. I. Title: Porcupine Cave fauna from Colorado.
II. Barnosky, Anthony D., 1952–
2004
560′.1792—dc22 2003059592
Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements
of ANSI/NISO -1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper).
To Don Rasmussen, who with his son Larry
found the fossil deposits in Porcupine Cave,
and whose unfailing enthusiasm for
discovery, excavation, and working
with other scientists and volunteers
was essential in moving the project
from concept to reality.
CONTENTS
PREFACE ix 5 The Geology and Speleogenesis 12 The Early and Middle
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi of Porcupine Cave 51 Pleistocene Avifauna from
LIST OF CHAPTER APPENDIXES xiii Robert G. Raynolds Porcupine Ca