@conference {2013, title = {Gastropod associations as a proxy for seagrass vegetation in a tropical carbonate setting (San Salvador, Bahamas) }, booktitle = {Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs}, year = {2012}, address = {Charlotte, North Carolina. }, abstract = {

Seagrass ecosystems play an important role in sedimentation processes and nutrient cycling and support local biodiversity by providing food and shelter for numerous associated organisms. These ecosystems have been around since the Late Cretaceous. In order to understand their emergence in geological time and their response to past perturbations we have to be able to recognize seagrass communities in the fossil record. However, seagrass itself hardly fossilizes and therefore we are searching for indirect indicators to recognize ancient seagrass vegetation. In this contribution we review molluscan evidence for palaeo-seagrass settings. Indicator species are rare since the majority of seagrass associated molluscs occurs in other marine habitats as well. Furthermore, those habitats appear to be patchy, both spatial and temporal, resulting in mixed occurrences of seagrass and non-seagrass faunas. Often only the high abundance of certain mollusc groups and the general taxonomic composition of a fauna points to seagrass environments. However, the distribution of gastropod trophic guilds in species richness versus abundance data appears to yield patterns that may be very characteristic for the identification of fossil seagrass associated faunas. We are currently applying Indirect PaleoSeagrass Indicators (IPSI\’s) to a number of fossil and modern shelly samples, both from seagrass and non-seagrass environments. We also briefly review potential sedimentary and geochemical IPSI\’s as well as fossil groups different than molluscs. Identifying seagrass environments enables us to assess diversity trends in such ecosystems through time and to study their response over time intervals with major environmental and climate change.

}, author = {Sonja Reich} } @conference {2013, title = {Diversity, abundance and taphonomic patterns across bivalve dead assemblages associated with sea grass beds, San Salvador, the Bahamas}, booktitle = {Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs}, year = {2012}, address = {Charlotte, North Carolina. }, abstract = {

Seagrass ecosystems play an important role in sedimentation processes and nutrient cycling and support local biodiversity by providing food and shelter for numerous associated organisms. These ecosystems have been around since the Late Cretaceous. In order to understand their emergence in geological time and their response to past perturbations we have to be able to recognize seagrass communities in the fossil record. However, seagrass itself hardly fossilizes and therefore we are searching for indirect indicators to recognize ancient seagrass vegetation. In this contribution we review molluscan evidence for palaeo-seagrass settings. Indicator species are rare since the majority of seagrass associated molluscs occurs in other marine habitats as well. Furthermore, those habitats appear to be patchy, both spatial and temporal, resulting in mixed occurrences of seagrass and non-seagrass faunas. Often only the high abundance of certain mollusc groups and the general taxonomic composition of a fauna points to seagrass environments. However, the distribution of gastropod trophic guilds in species richness versus abundance data appears to yield patterns that may be very characteristic for the identification of fossil seagrass associated faunas. We are currently applying Indirect PaleoSeagrass Indicators (IPSI\’s) to a number of fossil and modern shelly samples, both from seagrass and non-seagrass environments. We also briefly review potential sedimentary and geochemical IPSI\’s as well as fossil groups different than molluscs. Identifying seagrass environments enables us to assess diversity trends in such ecosystems through time and to study their response over time intervals with major environmental and climate change.

}, author = {B. Cecares and Sonja Reich} } @conference {2013, title = {Mollusk faunas as indirect indicators for palaeo-seagrass vegetation}, booktitle = {Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs}, year = {2012}, abstract = {

Seagrass ecosystems play an important role in sedimentation processes and nutrient cycling and support local biodiversity by providing food and shelter for numerous associated organisms. These ecosystems have been around since the Late Cretaceous. In order to understand their emergence in geological time and their response to past perturbations we have to be able to recognize seagrass communities in the fossil record. However, seagrass itself hardly fossilizes and therefore we are searching for indirect indicators to recognize ancient seagrass vegetation. In this contribution we review molluscan evidence for palaeo-seagrass settings. Indicator species are rare since the majority of seagrass associated molluscs occurs in other marine habitats as well. Furthermore, those habitats appear to be patchy, both spatial and temporal, resulting in mixed occurrences of seagrass and non-seagrass faunas. Often only the high abundance of certain mollusc groups and the general taxonomic composition of a fauna points to seagrass environments. However, the distribution of gastropod trophic guilds in species richness versus abundance data appears to yield patterns that may be very characteristic for the identification of fossil seagrass associated faunas. We are currently applying Indirect PaleoSeagrass Indicators (IPSI\’s) to a number of fossil and modern shelly samples, both from seagrass and non-seagrass environments. We also briefly review potential sedimentary and geochemical IPSI\’s as well as fossil groups different than molluscs. Identifying seagrass environments enables us to assess diversity trends in such ecosystems through time and to study their response over time intervals with major environmental and climate change.

}, author = {Sonja Reich and Frank P. Wesselingh and Willem Renema} } @article {1991, title = {Asynchronous response of coral reefs to Late Cenozoic global environmental change}, journal = {Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs}, volume = {44}, year = {2012}, pages = {623}, address = {Charlotte, North Carolina, USA}, url = {https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/webprogram/Paper208384.html}, author = {Kenneth G. Johnson and Nadiezhda Santodomingo and Brian R. Rosen} } @article {1990, title = {Development of a turbid reef in the Middle Miocene (East Kalimantan, Indonesia)}, journal = {Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs}, volume = {77}, year = {2012}, pages = {623}, address = {Charlotte, North Carolina, USA}, keywords = {INDONESIA, marginal ecosystems, Miocene, palaeonvironmental reconstruction, patch reefs}, url = {https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2012AM/webprogram/Paper209284.html}, author = {Nadiezhda Santodomingo and Vibor Novak and Nathan Marshall and Emanuela Di Martino and Nicholas Fraser and Elena LoGiudice and Vedrana Pretkovi{\'c} and Anja R{\"o}sler and Willem Renema and Kenneth G. Johnson} }