1st Edition

Bryozoan Studies 2004 Proceedings of the 13th International Bryozoology Association conference, Concepción/Chile, 11-16 January 2004

Edited By Hugo Moyano, Juan Cancino, Patrick Wyse Jackson Copyright 2005

    A selection of papers presented at the 13th International Conference of the International Bryozoology Association held in Concepción Chile in January 2004 and hosted by the Universidad de Concepción and Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción.

    The topics presented in this volume reflect the diversity of studies on bryozoa with authors from 18 countries. They include investigations in seven thematic areas: ecology and life strategies; recent and fossil faunas of Australia and New Zealand; past and present bryozoans from both Antarctic and Arctic seas; geology and palaeontology of bryozoans from Eurasia and North America; fresh water bryozoans around the world; fossil bryozoans of the Mediterranean and Tethyan realms and evolution and diversity of recent species. This volume represents the newest advances made in bryozoological studies during the last three years, and makes a significant contribution to the literature.

    Foreword, Life, death and fighting at high latitude: a review, Late Miocene Bryozoa from the Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain): eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean environment and biogeography, Bryozoa of the Romaine and Mingan Formations (Lower and Middle Ordovician) of the Mingan Islands, Quebec, Canada, Bryozoan species and roles in small ‘Waulsortian-like’ mud-mound bioherms in the Mississippian of the American Mid-West, Lower Carboniferous Bryozoa from some localities in Sauerland, Germany, Bryozoans from the Artinskian (Lower Permian) Great Bear Cape Formation, Ellesmere Island (Canadian Arctic), Taxonomic composition and structure of bryozoan-associated biofilms from Japan and New Zealand, The cheilostomatous genera of Alcide d’Orbigny – nomenclatural and taxonomic status, Oshurkovia: a new genus of Umbonulidae (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the northwest Pacific, Diversity, evolution and palaeoecology of the Tertiary bryozoan assemblages of western Kachchh, Gujarat, India, Revised biological definition of the Bryozoa, A review of non-commensal loxosomatids: collection, culture, and taxonomy, with new implications to the benefit of commensalism (Entoprocta: Loxosomatidae), Gigantism in Permian trepostomes from Greenland: testing the algal symbiosis hypothesis using C and O values, Bryozoan mode of life in the high Arctic dynamic fjordic environment, Spitsbergen, Bryodiversity on coastal boulders at Spitsbergen, Cheilostomate Bryozoa of the Bellingshausen Sea (Western Antarctica): a preliminary report of the results of the ‘Bentart 2003’ Spanish Expedition, The potential role of microbial activity and mineralization in exoskeletal development in Microporellidae, Bryozoa of the CIMAR-7 Expedition to the Aysenian fjords and channels, southern Chile, Some middle Permian bryozoans from Svalbard, Arctic Norway, Morphological differentiation in the Celleporella hyalina (Linnaeus, 1767) complex (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) along the Chilean coast, Submarine freshwater springs in the Adriatic Sea: a unique habitat for the bryozoan Pentapora fascialis, Ovicell development in the early calloporid Wilbertopora Cheetham, 1954 (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the mid-Cretaceous of the USA, Taxonomy and distribution of Bugula (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata: Anasca) in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, Bryozoans and stratigraphy, Upper Richmondian (Cincinnatian, Ordovician), Bryozoan facies in deep-sea Pleistocene environments of southern Italy, Variation in zooid size in two west European species of Alcyonidium (Ctenostomatida), Palaeoenvironments of Eocene Bryozoa, St Vincent Basin, South Australia, Infestation of a temperate reservoir by freshwater bryozoans: an integrated research programme, Ovicell pores and frontal wall pore sieve plates in eastern Pacific Microporellidae, Freshwater Bryozoa of Italy. A survey of some species from the Italian bryozoan collection of A. Viganò with new records, Freshwater Bryozoa of Italy. A survey of some species from the Italian bryozoan collection of A. Viganò with new records, A biogeographical analysis of Indo-West Pacific cheilostome bryozoan faunas, Some remarkable Bryozoa from the Neogene of Moravia (Czech Republic), The higher phylogeny of Phylactolaemate bryozoans inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA sequences, The distribution of freshwater bryozoans in Austria, A bryozoan fauna from the Carboniferous (Mississippian, Late Viséan) of the Velbert Anticline, Germany, A bryozoan and foraminifera association from the Miocene of Podbrezice, south Moravia (Czech Republic): an environmental history, List of participants, Taxonomic index, Author index

    Biography

    Hugo Moyano, Juan Cancino, Patrick Wyse Jackson