BIODIVERSITY RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE
PART ONE THE DISCOVERY AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOSSILS 1 CLIMATE CHANGE, BIODIVERSITY, AND ECOSYSTEM HEALTH: THE PAST AS A KEY TO THE FUTURE 2 THE PLEISTOCENE FOSSILS OF PORCUPINE CAVE, COLORADO: SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND TAPHONOMIC OVERVIEW 3 THE MODERN ENVIRONMENT, FLORA, AND VEGETATION OF SOUTH PARK, COLORADO 4 THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF PORCUPINE CAVE: AMERICAN INDIANS, SPANIARDS, GOVERNMENT SURVEYORS, PROSPECTORS, RANCHERS, CAVERS, AND PALEONTOLOGISTS IN SOUTH PARK, COLORADO 5 THE GEOLOGY AND SPELEOGENESIS OF PORCUPINE CAVE 6 MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE AGE OF PLEISTOCENE FOSSILIFEROUS STRATA IN PORCUPINE CAVE’S DMNH VELVET ROOM EXCAVATION 7 AGE AND CORRELATION OF KEY FOSSIL SITES IN PORCUPINE CAVE 8 BIOLOGY OF WOOD RATS AS CAVE DWELLERS AND COLLECTORS 9 PALEOPATHOLOGY AND TAPHONOMIC MODI?CATION OF MAMMALIAN BONES FROM PORCUPINE CAVE PART TWO SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNTS OF TAXA 10 A SUMMARY OF FOSSILIZED SPECIES IN PORCUPINE CAVE ANTHONY D BARNOSKY 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE HERPETOFAUNA FROM PORCUPINE CAVE 12 THE EARLY AND MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE AVIFAUNA FROM PORCUPINE CAVE 13 THE CARNIVORA FROM PORCUPINE CAVE ELAINE ANDERSON 14 MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE (IRVINGTONIAN) OCHOTONA (LAGOMORPHA: OCHOTONIDAE) FROM PORCUPINE CAVE 15 LEPORIDAE OF THE DMNH VELVET ROOM EXCAVATIONS AND MARK’S SINK 16 IDENTI?CATION OF MISCELLANEOUS MAMMALS FROM THE PIT LOCALITY: INCLUDING SORICIDAE, LEPORIDAE, GEOMYOIDEA 17 SYSTEMATICS AND FAUNAL DYNAMICS OF FOSSIL SQUIRRELS FROM PORCUPINE CAVE 18 FOSSIL WOOD RATS OF PORCUPINE CAVE: TECTONIC OR CLIMATIC CONTROLS? CONTENTS 19 ARVICOLINE RODENTS FROM PORCUPINE CAVE: IDENTI?CATION, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, TAXONOMIC ASSEMBLAGES, AND BIOCHRONOLOGIC SIGNI?CANCE 20 PLIOCENE AND PLEISTOCENE HORSES FROM PORCUPINE CAVE 21 PLEISTOCENE (IRVINGTONIAN) ARTIODACTYLA FROM PORCUPINE CAVE PART THREE EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON THE PORCUPINE CAVE FAUNA 22 IRVINGTONIAN MAMMALS FROM THE BADGER ROOM IN PORCUPINE CAVE: AGE, TAPHONOMY, CLIMATE, AND ECOLOGY 23 FAUNAL DYNAMICS OF SMALL MAMMALS THROUGH THE PIT SEQUENCE 24 STABLE CARBON AND OXYGEN ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF MARMOT CHEEK TEETH FROM THE PIT LOCALITY 25 ASSESSING THE EFFECT OF MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE ON MARMOTA POPULATIONS FROM THE PIT LOCALITY 26 EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE BIODIVERSITY LITERATURE CITED