Third International Palaeontological Congress (IPC3)

9. Devonian Bioevents - Timing, Palaeoecological and Evolutionary Patterns
Keynote speaker: Sandra Kaiser
Organiser: Thomas Becker
Sponsor: Subcommission on the Devonian System

Topics:

1. mass extinctions (Kellwasser and Hangenberg Crisis)

2. 2nd to 5th order global events (medium to small-scale global extinctions, such as Chotec, Kacak, Taghanic, Frasnes, Annulata and Dasberg Events)

3. event frequency and global climate climate

4. biotic effects of sudden eustatic change

5. extinction and recovery patterns

6. phylogenetic processes in crisis times

7. global versus regional diversity curves/extinction rates

8. data base/fossil record quality

9. events and extinction

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