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Latitudinal Difference in Biodiversity Caused by Higher Tropical Rate of Increase by Buzas, Martin A., Collins, Laurel S., Culver, Stephen J.

“…Tropical diversity has generally exceeded temperate diversity in the present and at points in the past, but whether measured differences have remained…”
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Formation of the Isthmus of Panama by O'Dea, Aaron, Lessios, Harilaos A, Coates, Anthony G, Eytan, Ron I, Restrepo-Moreno, Sergio A, Cione, Alberto L, Collins, Laurel S, de Queiroz, Alan, Farris, David W, Norris, Richard D, Stallard, Robert F, Woodburne, Michael O, Aguilera, Orangel, Aubry, Marie-Pierre, Berggren, William A, Budd, Ann F, Cozzuol, Mario A, Coppard, Simon E, Duque-Caro, Herman, Finnegan, Seth, Gasparini, Germán M, Grossman, Ethan L, Johnson, Kenneth G, Keigwin, Lloyd D, Knowlton, Nancy, Leigh, Egbert G, Leonard-Pingel, Jill S, Marko, Peter B, Pyenson, Nicholas D, Rachello-Dolmen, Paola G, Soibelzon, Esteban, Soibelzon, Leopoldo, Todd, Jonathan A, Vermeij, Geerat J, Jackson, Jeremy B C

“…The formation of the Isthmus of Panama stands as one of the greatest natural events of the Cenozoic, driving profound biotic transformations on land and in the…”
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Variability of foraminiferal stable isotope ratios in Caribbean shallow waters of Panama: A modern framework for Neogene studies by Collins, Laurel S., Geary, Dana H., Grossman, Ethan L.

“…Oxygen and carbon isotope analyses of the foraminifera Orbulina universa (planktic), Uvigerina peregrina (benthic) and Cibicides pachyderma (benthic) in 45…”
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Historical seagrass abundance of Florida Bay, USA, based on a foraminiferal proxy by Collins, Laurel S., Cheng, Jie, Hayek, Lee-Ann C., Fourqurean, James W., Buzas, Martin A.

“…A foraminiferal proxy for seagrass abundance was developed, tested and used to construct a record of seagrass variability for Florida Bay, USA, since its…”
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Correspondence of historic salinity fluctuations in Florida Bay, USA, to atmospheric variability and anthropogenic changes by Wachnicka, Anna, Gaiser, Evelyn, Collins, Laurel S

“…Florida Bay is a highly dynamic estuary that exhibits wide natural fluctuations in salinity due to changes in the balance of precipitation, evaporation and…”
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Diversity and Extinction of Tropical American Mollusks and Emergence of the Isthmus of Panama by Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Jung, Peter, Coates, Anthony G., Collins, Laurel S.

“…The gradual closure of the Panamanian seaway and the resulting environmental change stimulated an increase in Caribbean molluscan diversity rather than the…”
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Response of diatom assemblages to 130 years of environmental change in Florida Bay (USA) by Wachnicka, Anna, Collins, Laurel S, Gaiser, Evelyn E

“…Coastal ecosystems around the world are constantly changing in response to interacting shifts in climate and land and water use by expanding human populations…”
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Using foraminifera to assess changes in marine coastal habitats of Caribbean Panama since the Middle Holocene by Gudnitz, Maria N., Collins, Laurel S.

“…Humans settled the Bocas del Toro archipelago of Caribbean Panama ∼690 CE. Coastal land was cleared for agriculture in the late 1880s and in recent decades…”
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Controls on sedimentary accumulation of organic matter during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2, IODP site U1407, Southeast Newfoundland Ridge by Londoño, Vanessa, Collins, Laurel S.

“…The pelagic sediments from Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Site U1407 in the western North Atlantic are characterized by a sequence of organic-lean…”
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Controls on facies and sequence stratigraphy of an upper Miocene carbonate ramp and platform, Melilla basin, NE Morocco by Cunningham, Kevin J, Collins, Laurel S

“…Upwelling of cool seawater, paleoceanographic circulation, paleoclimate, local tectonics and relative sea-level change controlled the lithofacies and sequence…”
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Earliest Evolution Associated with Closure of the Tropical American Seaway by Collins, Laurel S., Budd, Ann F., Coates, Anthony G.

“…Oceanographic changes caused by the emerging Central American isthmus, which completely severed connections between the Caribbean Sea and tropical Pacific…”
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Foraminiferal communities of a mid-Holocene reef: Isla Colón, Caribbean Panama by Gudnitz, Maria N., Collins, Laurel S., O'Dea, Aaron

“…The distribution of mid-Holocene, tropical benthic foraminiferal assemblages, including species' proportions, diversity, dominance and wall type, were analyzed…”
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Neogene paleoenvironments of the Bocas del Toro Basin, Panama by Collins, Laurel S.

“…Outcrops of upper Miocene to upper Pliocene sediments in the Bocas del Toro Basin, Caribbean coast of western Panama, contain a record of the emergence of the…”
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Trends in Caribbean Paleoproductivity related to the Neogene closure of the Central American Seaway by Jain, Sreepat, Collins, Laurel S.

“…This study tests the hypothesis that the late Miocene to early Pliocene constriction and closure of the Central American Seaway (CAS), connecting the tropical…”
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Relationship of benthic foraminiferal diversity to paleoproductivity in the Neogene Caribbean by Jain, Sreepat, Collins, Laurel S., Hayek, Lee-Ann C.

“…Diversity trends 8.3–2.5 Ma in Caribbean deep-sea foraminifera, as interpreted from the indices Fisher's α and the Information Index [ H( S)] parallel…”
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Evolutionary rates of a rapid radiation; the Paleogene planktic foraminifera by Collins, Laurel S

“…Population growth models of taxonomic radiations of clades from their origins have rarely been tested at the species level on an evolutionary time scale. The…”
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Corrigendum to “Controls on facies and sequence stratigraphy of an upper Miocene carbonate ramp and platform” [Sediment. Geol. 146 (2002) 285–304] by Cunningham, Kevin J., Collins, Laurel S.

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Divergence of late Miocene Caribbean and tropical Eastern Pacific shallow-water benthic foraminifera by Collins, Laurel S.

“…In the Paleogene to earliest Neogene, benthic foraminiferal and molluscan faunas from the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific were reported to be quite similar,…”
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Relationship of benthic foraminiferal diversity to paleoproductivity in the Neogene of the Caribbean deep-sea by Jain, Sreepat, Collins, Laurel S.

“…Diversity treads in late Miocene to Pliocene, Caribbean deep-sea benthic foraminifera >63 i m, as interpreted from the indices Fisher's a, Shannon-Weiner…”
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Neotectonic uplift of the Pacific Coast of Panama and Costa Rica, based on benthic foraminifera by Leon-Rodriguez, Lizette, Collins, Laurel S.

“…At the northeastern edge of the Cocos Plate there is an aseismic and anomalously light ridge known as the Cocos Ridge that is currently being subducted beneath…”
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