Ostracoda as proxies for Quaternary climate change / edited by David J. Horne ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A general introduction to ostracods : morphology, distribution, fossil record and applications / by Julio Rodriguez-Lazaro and Francisco Ruiz-Muz -- The ecology of Ostracoda across levels of biological organisation from individual to ecosystem : a review of recent developments and future potential / Francesc Mesquita-Joanes, Alison J. Smith and Finn A. Viehberg -- Ostracod taxa as palaeoclimate indicators in the Quaternary / Alan R. Lord, Ian Boomer, Elisabeth Brouwers and John E. Whittaker -- Quantitative transfer function approaches in palaeoclimatic reconstruction using Quaternary ostracods / Finn A. Viehberg and Francesc Mesquita-Joanes -- Mutual climatic range methods for Quaternary ostracods / David J. Horne, B. Brandon Curry and Francesc Mesquita-Joanes -- The biogeography and physicochemical characteristics of freshwater ostracods in Canada and the United States / B. Brandon Curry, L. Denis Delorme, Alison J. Smith, Donald F. Palmer and Barbara J. Stiff -- Distribution of freshwater ostracods in the Canadian north and implications for palaeoclimate reconstructions / Joan Bunbury -- The chemical composition of ostracod shells : applications in Quaternary palaeoclimatology / Jonathan A. Holmes and Patrick De Deckker -- The calibration of environmental controls on elemental ratios in ostracod shell calcite : a critical assessment / David L. Dettman and Gary S. Dwyer -- Biological and environmental controls on isotopes in ostracod shells / Laurent Decrouy -- The versatility of Quaternary ostracods as palaeoclimate proxies : comparative testing of geochemical, ecological and biogeographical approaches / Alison J. Smith and Donald F. Palmer -- Ostracoda as indicators of climatic and human-influenced changes in the late Quaternary of the Ponto-Caspian region (Aral, Caspian and Black seas) / Ian Boomer -- Geochemical and palaeoecological analyses of mid Pleistocene to Holocene ostracod assemblages from Valle di Castiglione (Italy) : palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic assessment / Pere Anad, Elsa Gliozzi and Ilaria Mazzini -- Climate variability during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age based on ostracod faunas and shell geochemistry from Biscayne Bay, Florida / Thomas M. Cronin, G. Lynn Wingard, Gary S. Dwyer, Peter K. Swart, Debra A. Willard and Jessica Albietz -- Quaternary ostracods from the Tibetan Plateau and their significance for environmental and climate-change studies / Steffen Mischke -- Holocene lake-level changes of Lake Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau, deduced from ostracod assemblages and [delta]¹⁸O and [delta]¹³C signatures of their valves / Claudia Wrozyna, Peter Frenzel, Gerhard Daut, Roland M衵sbacher, Liping Zhu and Antje Schwalb -- Palaeogenetics for ostracods (Crustacea, Ostracoda) / Isa Sch诮, Hilde Eggermont, Erik Verheyen and Koen Martens -- Ostracoda as proxies for Quaternary climate change : overview and future prospects / David J. Horne, Jonathan A. Holmes, Julio Rodriguez-Lazaro and Finn A. Viehberg.