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Description / Table of Contents: The study of biodiversity through geological time provides important information for the understanding of diversity patterns at the present day. Hitherto, much effort has been paid to studying the mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic but the research emphasis has now changed to focus on what occurred between these spectacular catastrophic events. After the Cambrian ‘explosion’ of marine organisms with readily preservable skeletons, there have been two intervals when life radiated dramatically — the Ordovician Period, and the mid-Mesozoic-Cenozoic eras. These intervals saw a fundamental reorganization of biodiversity on a hierarchy of biogeographical scales. The size of these diversity increases and their probable causes are topics of intense debate, and there is an intriguing link between the dispersal of continents, changing climates and the proliferation of life. The papers in this volume are written by palaeontologists, biogeographers and geologists addressing the highly topical field of palaeobiodiversity in the context of the Earth’s changing geography. Palaeobiogeography and Biodiversity Change: the Ordovician and Mesozoic-Cenozoic Radiations illustrates many aspects of the two great episodes of biotic radiation and shows how long periods of time and plate tectonic movements have a fundamental influence on the generation and maintenance of major extant biodiversity patterns. The volume will be of interest to professional palaeontologists, biologists and geologists, as well as to students in earth and biological sciences.

Description / Table of Contents: The geoengineering approach to the study of rivers and reservoirs / Patrick W. M. Corbett, Amanda Owen, Adrian J. Hartley, Sila Pla-Pueyo, Daniel Barreto, Chris Hackney and Stephanie J. Kape / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 1-13, 24 September 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488-2018-98 --- Organization and reorganization of drainage and sediment routing through time: the Mississippi River system / Mike Blum / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 15-45, 30 July 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488-2018-166 --- Eocene–Recent drainage evolution of the Colorado River and its precursor: an integrated provenance perspective from SW California / Uisdean Nicholson, Andrew Carter, Paula Robinson and David I. M. Macdonald / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 47-72, 31 January 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488-2019-272 --- Towards the multi-scale characterization of braided fluvial geobodies from outcrop, core, ground-penetrating radar and well log data / Luis Miguel Yeste, Saturnina Henares, Neil McDougall, Fernando García-García and César Viseras / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 73-95, 28 November 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488.3 --- Spatial variations in distributive fluvial system architecture of the Upper Cretaceous Marília Formation, SE Brazil / Patrick Führ Dal’ Bó, Marcus Vinícius Theodoro Soares, Giorgio Basilici, Amanda Goulart Rodrigues and Mauricius Nascimento Menezes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 97-118, 28 November 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488.6 --- Architectural and facies characterization of the Aptian fluvial Barbalha Formation, Araripe Basin, NE Brazil / Gelson Luís Fambrini, Diego da Cunha Silvestre, José Acioli Bezerra de Menezes-Filho, Ian Cavalcanti da Costa and Virgínio Henrique de Miranda Lopes Neumann / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 119-150, 23 July 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488-2017-275 --- Describing fluvial systems: linking processes to deposits and stratigraphy / Jim Best and Christopher R. Fielding / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 152-166, 15 February 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488-2019-056 --- Natural and anthropogenic influences on the Nhecolândia wetlands, SE Pantanal, Brazil / Emiliano Castro de Oliveira, Sila Pla-Pueyo and Christopher R. Hackney / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 167-180, 10 December 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488.5 --- Sedimentology, architecture and depositional setting of the fluvial Spireslack Sandstone of the Midland Valley, Scotland: insights from the Spireslack surface coal mine / R. Ellen, M. A. E. Browne, A. J. Mitten, S. M. Clarke, A. G. Leslie and E. Callaghan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 181-204, 21 November 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488.2 --- Stochastic modelling of flow sequences for improved prediction of fluvial flood hazards / Sandhya Patidar, Deonie Allen, Rick Haynes and Heather Haynes / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 205-219, 18 December 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488.4 --- Can machine learning reveal sedimentological patterns in river deposits? / Vasily Demyanov, Arnold Jan H. Reesink and Daniel Peter Arnold / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 221-235, 19 July 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488-2018-84 --- Understanding subsurface fluvial architecture from a combination of geological well test models and well test data / Patrick William Michael Corbett and Gleyden Lucila Benítez Duarte / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 237-257, 14 December 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488.7 --- Climate change, water-related disasters, flood control and rainfall forecasting: a case study of the São Francisco River, Brazil / Julio Issao Kuwajima, Fernando Mainardi Fan, Dirk Schwanenberg, Alberto Assis Dos Reis, André Niemann and Frederico Fábio Mauad / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 259-276, 9 April 2019, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488-2018-128 --- Effect of dynamically varying zone-based hedging policies on the operational performance of surface water reservoirs during climate change / Adebayo J. Adeloye and Bankaru-Swamy Soundharajan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 488, 277-289, 17 December 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488.1

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction --- Health and Safety Considerations --- Sample Collection and Storage --- Low-Cost DNA Extraction --- PCR Amplification for Low-Cost Mutation Discovery --- Enzymatic Mismatch Cleavage and Agarose Gel Evaluation of Samples --- Alternative Enzymology for Mismatch Cleavage for TILLING and Ecotilling: Extraction of Enzymes form Common Weedy Plants --- Example Data --- Conclusions.