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California Academy of Sciences
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Dr. Peter D. Roopnarine
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Selected Publications

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Roopnarine, P. D. 2008 Ecological Informatics: Catastrophe Theory. Encyclopedia of Ecology. Elsevier Press. p. 531-536

Roopnarine, P. D., J. Signorelli and C. Laumer 2008 Systematic, biogeographic and microhabitat-based morphometric variation of the bivalve Anomalocardia squamosa (Bivalvia: Veneridae: Chioninae) in Thailand. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 18: 95-102

Goodwin, D. H., L. C. Anderson and P. D. Roopnarine 2008 Evolutionary origins of novel conchologic growth patterns in tropical American corbulid bivalves. Evolution and Development. (in press)

Vermeij, G. J. and P. D. Roopnarine 2008 The Coming Arctic Invasion. Science 321: 780-781

Roopnarine, P. D., K. D. Angielczyk, S. C. Wang and R. Hertog 2007 Trophic network models explain instability of Early Triassic terrestrial communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 2077-2086

Roopnarine, P. D., K. D. Angielczyk and R. Hertog 2006 Comment on "Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates". Science 314: 925d

Roopnarine, P. D. 2006 Extinction cascades and catastrophe in ancient food webs. Paleobiology 32: 1-19

Roopnarine, P. D., M. A. Murphy and N. Buening 2005 Microevolutionary dynamics of the Early Devonian conodont Wurmiella from the Great Basin of Nevada. Paleontologia Electronica 8(2)

Roopnarine, P. D. 2005 The likelihood of stratophenetic-based hypotheses of genealogical succession. Special Papers in Paleontology 73: 1-15

Anderson, L. C. and P. D. Roopnarine 2005 Role of constraint and selection in the morphologic evolution of Caryocorbula (Mollusca: Corbulidae) from the Caribbean Neogene Paleontologia Electronica 8(2)

Dettman, David L., Karl W. Flessa, Peter D. Roopnarine, Bernd R. Schöne, and David H. Goodwin 2004 The use of oxygen isotope variation in shells of estuarine mollusks as a quantitative record of seasonal and annual Colorado River discharge. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68(6): 1253–1263

Tang, Carol M. and Peter D. Roopnarine 2003 Evaporites, Water, and Life, Part I - Complex Morphological Variability in Complex Evaporitic Systems: Thermal Spring Snails from the Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico. Astrobiology 3(3): 597-607

Roopnarine, P.D. 2003 Analysis of Rates of Morphologic Evolution. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 34: 605–32

Anderson, Laurie C. and Peter D. Roopnarine 2003 Evolution and Phylogenetic Relationships of Neogene Corbulidae (Bivalvia; Myoidea) of Tropical America Journal of Paleontology, 77(6): 1086–1102

Roopnarine, Peter D. 2002 (Book Review) Empiricism at all levels - Evolutionary Patterns. Growth, Form and Tempo in the Fossil Record edited by Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Scott Lidgard and Frank K. McKinney. The University of Chicago Press, 2001. (xvi + 399 pages) ISBN 0 226 38931 6. Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Roopnarine, Peter D. 2001 The description and classification of evolutionary mode: a computational approach. Paleobiology, 27(3): 446–465

Roopnarine, Peter D. 2001 A History of Diversification, Extinction, and Invasion in Tropical America as Derived From Species-Level Phylogenies of Chionine Genera (Family Veneridae). Journal of Paleontology, 75(3): 644–657

Roopnarine, Peter D. and Geerat J. Vermeij 2000 One Species Becomes Two: The Case of Chione Cancellata. The Resurrected C. Elevata, and a Phylogenetic Analysis of Chione Journal of Molluscan Studies, 66: 517-534.

Roopnarine, Peter D. and Amy Beussink 1999 Extinction and Naticid Predation of the Bivalve Chione Von Mühlfeld in the Late Neogene of Florida. Paleontological Society 1999

Roopnarine, Peter D., Gabe Byars, and Paul Fitzgerald 1999 Anagenetic evolution, stratophenetic patterns, and random walk models Paleobiology, 25(1): 41-57


Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology
California Academy of Sciences