Publications by M. Kowalewski

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Last Updated: April 13, 2008
Summary
Edited Books (2)  ||  Journal Theme Issues (2)  ||  Peer-Reviewed Scientific Contributions (73)  || Short Contributions/Comments (8)
Citations/Responses (1)   ||   Abstracts (144)   ||   Book Translations (1)  ||  Citations in the Science Citation Index  ( 871) || H-index=15

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Edited Books


  1. Kelley, P. H., Kowalewski, M. and Hansen, T. A., eds., (2003), Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record. Topics in Geobiology Series 20, Plenum Press/Kluwer, New York, xvi + 464pp. (ISBN: 0-306-47489-1)
  2. Kowalewski, M., and Kelley, P. H., eds., (2002), The Fossil Record of Predation. Paleontological Society Special Papers, v. 8, Paleontological Society, Yale Printing Service, New Haven, CT, 398pp. (ISSN: 1089-3326) PDF - 32MB


    Journal Theme Issues

  1. Kowalewski, M., and Leighton, L.R., (2007), Predator-Prey Interactions: Experimental and Field Approaches (Friday Harbor Special Issue). Journal of Shellfish Research, v. 26, issue no. 1, pp. 215-280.
  2. LaBarbera, M., and Kowalewski, M., (2004), Actualistic Taphonomy (Friday Harbor Special Issue). Palaios, v. 19, issue no. 4, pp.  421-519.

Peer-Review Publications

  1. Yanes**, Y., Tomasovych, A., Kowalewski, M., Castillo, C., Aguirre, J., Alonso, M.R., and Ibanez, M., (2008) Taphonomy and compositional fidelity of Quaternary fossil assemblages of terrestrial gastropods from carbonate-rich environments of the Canary Islands. Lethaia, 42, in press.
  2. Huntley**, J.W., Yanes**, Y., Kowalewski, M., Castillo, C., Delgado-Huertas, A., Ibanez, M., Alonso, M.R., Ortiz, J.E., and De Torres, T., (2008) Testing limiting similarity in Quaternary terrestrial gastropods. Paleobiology in press.
  3. Yanes**, Y., Delgado, A., Castillo, C., Alonso, M.R., Ibanez, M., De La Nuez, J., and Kowalewski, M., (2008), Stable isotope (delta-1-8O, delta-13-C, and delta-D) signatures of Recent terrestrial communities from a low-latitude, oceanic setting: Endemic land snails, plants, rain, and carbonate sediments from the Eastern Canary Islands. Chemical Geology 249: 377-392.
  4. Shen*, B, Dong*, L, Xiao S., and Kowalewski, M., (2008), The Avalon Explosion: Evolution of Ediacara Morphospace. Science 319: 81-84.
  5. Bush, A.M., Kowalewski, M., Hoffmeister, A.P., Bambach, R.K., and Daley, G.M., (2007), Potential paleoecologic biases from size-filtering of fossils. Palaios 22: 612-622.
  6. Huntley**, J.W., and Kowalewski, M., (2007), Strong coupling of predation intensity and diversity in the Phanerozoic fossil record. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 104: 15006-15010. 
  7. Yanes**, Y., Kowalewski, M., Ortiz, J.E., Castillo, C., de Torres, T., and de la Nuez, J., (2007), Scale and structure of time-averaging (age mixing) in terrestrial gastropod assemblages from Quaternary eolian deposits of the eastern Canary Islands. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 251: 283-299.
  8. Kowalewski, M., (2007), Time-averaging. In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, v. 10 (online publication only).
  9. Casey*, M.M., Fraser, N., and Kowalewski, M., (2007), Quantitative taphonomy of a Triassic reptile: Tanytrachelos ahynis from the Cow Branch Formation, Dan River Basin, Solite Quarry, Virginia. Palaios 22: 598-611.
  10. Kowalewski, M., (2007), Oichnus, In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, v. 10: 298-299.
  11. Scarponi**, D. and Kowalewski, M., (2007), Sequence stratigraphic anatomy of diversity patterns: Late Quaternary benthic mollusks of the Po Plain, Italy. Palaios 22: 296-305.
  12. Kowalewski, M., and Leighton, L.R., (2007), Predator-Prey interactions: Experimental and field approaches. Journal of Shellfish Research 26: 217-220.
  13. Simões, M.G., Rodrigues, S.C., and Kowalewski, M., (2007), Paleobiological implications of drilling predation patterns in present-day brachiopod-mollusk associations. Palaios 22: 143-154.
  14. Krause*, R.A., JR., Stempien*, J., Kowalewski, M., and Miller, A.I., (2007), Body size estimates from the literature: Utility and potential for macroevolutionary studies. Palaios 22: 63-76.
  15. Huntley*, J.W., Xiao, S., Kowalewski, M., (2006) On the morphological history of Proterozoic and Cambrian acritarchs. Pp. 23-56. In: Xiao, S., and Kaufman, A.J., eds., Topics in Geobiology, Kluwer, Plenum Press, New York.
  16. Kowalewski, M.,  Kiessling, W., Aberhan, M., Fürsich, F.T., Scarponi**, D., Barbour Wood*, S.L., and Hoffmeister*, A.P. (2006) Ecological, taxonomic, and taphonomic components of the post-Paleozoic increase in sample-level species diversity of marine benthos. Paleobiology 32: 533-561.
  17. Barbour Wood*, S., Krause* R.A., Jr., Kowalewski, M., Wehmiller, J.A., and Simões, M.G., (2006) Aspartic acid (Asp) racemization dating of Holocene calcitic brachiopods and aragonitic bivalves from the southern Brazilian Shelf, South Atlantic. Quaternary Research 66: 323-331.
  18. Rodland*, D.L., Kowalewski, M., Carroll*, M., and Simões, M.G. (2006) The temporal resolution of epibiont assemblages: are they ecological snapshots or overexposures? Journal of Geology 114: 313-324.
  19. Huntley*, J.W., Xiao, S., and Kowalewski, M. (2006) Morphological diversification of Proterozoic and Cambrian protists. Precambrian Research 144: 53-68.
  20. Behrensmeyer, A.K., Fürsich, F.T., Gastaldo, R.A., Kidwell, S.M., Kosnik, M.A., Kowalewski, M., Plotnick, R.E., Rogers, R.R., and Alroy, J., (2005) Durability bias in the Phanerozoic marine invertebrate fossil record. Paleobiology 31: 607-623.
  21. Kowalewski, M., Hoffmeister*, A.P., Baumiller, T.K., and Bambach, R.K., (2005) Secondary evolutionary escalation between brachiopods and enemies of other prey. Science 308: 1774-1777.
  22. Reed, J.S., Eriksson, K.A., and Kowalewski, M., (2005) Controls on Carboniferous sandstone diagenesis, Central Appalachian Basin: A qualitative and quantitative assessment. Sedimentary Geology 176: 225-246.
  23. Brown*, M.E., Kowalewski, M., Neves, R.J., Cherry, D.S., and Schreiber, M.E., (2005) Freshwater mussel shells as environmental chronicles: Geochemical and taphonomic signatures of mercury-related extirpations in the North Fork Holston River, Virginia. Environmental Science and Technology 39: 1455-1562.
  24. Scarponi**, D., and Kowalewski, M., (2004) Stratigraphic paleoecology: Bathymetric signatures and sequence overprint of mollusk associations from the upper Quaternary sequences of the Po Plain, Italy. Geology 32: 989-992.
  25. Kowalewski, M., (2004) Drill holes produced by the predatory gastropod Nucella lamellosa (Muricidae): Paleobiological and ecological implications. Journal of Molluscan Studies 70: 359-370.
  26. Kowalewski, M., and LaBarbera, M., (2004) Actualistic taphonomy: Death, decay, and disintegration in contemporary settings. Palaios 19: 423-427.
  27. Rodland*, D. L., Kowalewski, M., Simões, M.G., and Carroll*, M., (2004) Colonization of a 'Lost World': encrustation patterns in modern subtropical brachiopod assemblages. Palaios 19: 384-399.
  28. Hoffmeister*, A.P., Kowalewski, M., Bambach, R.K., and Baumiller, T.K., (2004) Drilling predation in brachiopods and bivalve mollusks from the Permian Strata of the Glass Mountains, West Texas. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49: 443-454.
  29. Simões, M.G., Kowalewski, M., Mello, L.H.C., Rodland*, D.L., and Carroll*, M., (2004) Present-day terebratulid brachiopods from the southern Brazilian Shelf: Paleontological and biogeographic implications. Palaeontology 47: 515-532.
  30. Deline, N., Baumiller, T. K., Kaplan, P., Kowalewski, M., and Hoffmeister*, A. P., (2003) Edge-drilling on the brachiopod Perditocardinia dubia from the Mississippian of Missouri. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 201: 211-219.
  31. Kowalewski, M., (2003) Conservation Paleobiology. Pp.60-62.  In: Geller, E. (ed.), McGraw-Hill 2004 Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, New York.
  32. Rodland*, D.L., Kowalewski, M., Dettman, D.L., Flessa, K.W., Atudorei, V., and Sharp, Z., (2003) High resolution analysis of d18O in the biogenic phosphate of modern and fossil lingulid brachiopods. Journal of Geology 111: 441-454.
  33. Kowalewski, M., and Rimstidt, J.D., (2003) Lifetime and age spectra of detrital grains: toward a unifying theory of sedimentary particles. Journal of Geology 111: 427-440.
  34. Kowalewski, M., and Hoffmeister*, A.P., (2003) Sieves and fossils: Effects of mesh size on paleontological patterns. Palaios 18: 459-468.
  35. Hoffmeister*, A.P., Kowalewski, M., Bambach, R.K., and Baumiller, T.K., (2003) Intense drilling predation on the brachiopod Cardiarina cordata Cooper 1956 from the Pennsylvanian of New Mexico. Lethaia 36: 107-118.
  36. Kowalewski, M., and Bambach, R.K., (2003) The limits of paleontological resolution, p. 1-48. In: Harries, P.J., eds., High Resolution Approaches in Stratigraphic Paleontology: Topic in Geobiology Series 21, Plenum Press/Kluwer, New York.
  37. Carroll*, M., Kowalewski, M., Simões, M.G., and Goodfriend, G.A., (2003) Quantitative estimates of time-averaging in brachiopod shell accumulations from a modern tropical shelf. Paleobiology 29: 381-403.
  38. Kowalewski, M., Carroll*, M., Casazza*, L., Gupta*, N., Hannisdal*, B., Hendy*, A., Krause*, R. A., Jr., LaBarbera, M., Lazo*, D. G., Messina*, C., Puchalski*, S., Rothfus*, T. A., Sälgeback*, J., Stempien*, J., Terry*, R. C., Tomašových*, A. (2003) Quantitative fidelity of brachiopod-mollusk assemblages from modern subtidal environments of San Juan Islands, USA. Journal of Taphonomy, 1:43-65.
  39. Kowalewski, M., and Nebelsick, J.H. (2003) Predation and parasitism on recent and fossil echinoids, p. 279-302. In: Kelley, P. H., Kowalewski, M. and Hansen, T. A., eds., Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record: Topics in Geobiology Series 20, Plenum Press/Kluwer, New York.
  40. Kowalewski, M., Kelley, P.H., Bambach, R.K., Baumiller, T.K., Bengtson, S., Brett, C.E., Chin, K., Culver, S.J., Dietl, G.P., Farlow, J.O., Gahn, F.J., Haynes, G., Holtz, T.R., Jr., Jenkins, I., Labandeira, C.C., Lipps, J.H., Van Valkenburgh, B., Vermeij, G.J., And Walker, S.E., (2002) The fossil record of predation: methods, patterns, and processes, in Kowalewski, M., and Kelley, P.H., eds., The Fossil Record of Predation: Paleontological Society Special Papers, 8:395-398.
  41. Kowalewski, M. (2002) The fossil record of predation: An overview of analytical methods, in Kowalewski, M., and Kelley, P.H., eds., The Fossil Record of Predation: Paleontological Society Special Papers 8: 3-42.
  42. Powell*, M.G., and Kowalewski, M., (2002) Increase in evenness and alpha diversity through the Phanerozoic: Comparison of Early Paleozoic and Cenozoic marine fossil assemblages. Geology 30: 331-334.
  43. Kowalewski, M., Simões, M.G., Carroll*, M., and Rodland*, D.L., (2002) Abundant brachiopods on a tropical, upwelling-influenced shelf (Southeast Brazilian Bight, South Atlantic). Palaios 17: 277-286.
  44. Kowalewski, M., Gürs, K., Nebelsick, J.H., Oschmann, W., Piller, W.E., and Hoffmeister*, A.P., (2002) Multivariate hierarchical analyses of Miocene mollusk assemblages of Europe: Paleogeographic, paleoecological, and biostratigraphic implications. Geological Society of America Bulletin 114: 239-256.
  45. Hoffmeister*, A.P., and Kowalewski, M., (2001) Spatial and environmental variation in the fossil record of drilling predation: A case study from the Miocene of Central Europe. Palaios 16: 566-579.
  46. Kowalewski, M., Avila Serrano, G.E., Flessa, K.W., and Goodfriend, G.A. (2000) Dead delta's former productivity: Two trillion shells at the mouth of the Colorado River. Geology 28: 1059-1062.
  47. Simões, M.G., Kowalewski, M., Torello, F.F., Ghilardi, R.P., and Mello, L.H.C. (2000) Early onset of modern-style shell beds in the Permian sequences of the Parana Basin: Implications for the Phanerozoic trend in bioclastic accumulations. Revista Brasileira de Geosciências (RBG), 30: 495-499.
  48. Kowalewski, M. Simões, M.G., Torello, F.F., Mello, L.H.C., and Ghilardi, R.P. (2000) Drill holes in shells of Permian benthic invertebrates. Journal of Paleontology 74: 532-543.
  49. Kowalewski, M., and Flessa, K.W. (2000) Seasonal predation by migratory shorebirds recorded in shells of lingulid brachiopods from Baja California, México. Bulletin of Marine Science, 66: 405-416.
  50. Kowalewski, M. (1999) Paleoecology, p. 328-329. In: Licker, M. D. (publisher), McGraw-Hill 2000 Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1999.
  51. Nebelsick, J. H., and Kowalewski, M. (1999) Drilling predation on Recent clypasteroid echinoids from the Red Sea. Palaios 14: 127-144.
  52. Kowalewski, M., Dulai, A., and Fürsich, F.T. (1998) A fossil record full of holes: The Phaneorozoic history of drilling predation. Geology 26: 1091-1094.
  53. Kowalewski, M., Goodfriend, G.A., and Flessa, K. W. (1998) The high-resolution estimates of temporal mixing in shell beds: the evils and virtues of time-averaging. Paleobiology, 24: 287-304.
  54. Kowalewski, M., Demko, T.M., Hasiotis, S.T., and Newell, D. (1998) Quantitative ichnology of Triassic crayfish burrows (Camborygma eumekenomos): ichnofossils as linkages to population paleoecology. Ichnos, 6: 5-21.
  55. Simões, M.G., and Kowalewski, M. (1998) Shell beds as paleoecological puzzles: a case study from the Upper Permian of the Parana Basin, Brazil. Facies, 38: 175-196.
  56. Kowalewski, M. (1997) The reciprocal taphonomic model. Lethaia 30: 86-88.
  57. Kowalewski, M., Dyreson, E., Marcot, J.D., Vargas, J.A., Flessa, K.W., and Hallman, D.P. (1997) The phentic discrimination of biometric simpletons: paleobiological implications of morphospecies in the lingulide brachiopod Glottidia. Paleobiology 23: 444-469.
  58. Kowalewski, M., Flessa, K.W., and Marcot, J.D. (1997) Predatory scars in the shells of a Recent lingulid brachiopod: paleontological and ecological implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 42: 497-532.
  59. Kowalewski, M. (1996) Taphonomy of a living fossil: the lingulide brachiopod Glottidia palmeri Dall from Baja California, Mexico. Palaios 11: 244-265.
  60. Kowalewski, M. (1996) Time-averaging, overcompleteness and the geological record. Journal of Geology, 104: 317-326.
  61. Kowalewski, M. (1996) Taphonomic megabias in the fossil record of lingulide brachiopods, p. 145-150. In: Copper, P. & Jin, J. (eds.), Brachiopods, Balkema, Rotterdam, 373 pp.
  62. Kowalewski, M., and Demko, T.M. (1996) Trace fossils and population paleoecology: comparative analysis of size-frequency distributions derived from burrows. Lethaia 29: 113-124.
  63. Kowalewski, M., and Flessa, K.W. (1996) The fossil record of lingulide brachiopods and the nature of taphonomic megabiases. Geology, 24: 977-980.
  64. Hallman, D.P., Flessa, K.W., Kowalewski, M., Aggen, J.A., Carlton, J., & Hertweck, G. (1996) Ternary taphograms and the comparative taphonomy of Recent mollusks from the North Sea and the Gulf of California. Senckenbergiana Maritima, 27: 67-75.
  65. Kowalewski, M., and Flessa, K.W. (1995) Comparative taphonomy and faunal composition of the shelly cheniers from the northeastern Baja California, Mexico. Ciencias Marinas 21: 155-177.
  66. Kowalewski, M., Flessa, K.W., and Hallman, D.P. (1995) Ternary taphograms: Triangular diagrams applied to taphonomic analysis. Palaios 10: 478-483.
  67. Flessa, K.W., and Kowalewski, M. (1994) Shell survival and time-averaging in nearshore and shelf environments: estimates from the radiocarbon literature. Lethaia 27: 153-165.
  68. Kowalewski, M. & Flessa, K.W. (1994) A predatory drillhole in Glottidia palmeri, Dall (Brachiopoda; Lingulidae) from Recent tidal flats of northeastern Baja California, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 68: 1403-1405.
  69. Kowalewski, M., Flessa, K.W., and Aggen, J.A. (1994) Taphofacies analysis of Recent shelly cheniers (beach ridges), northeastern Baja California, Mexico. Facies, 31: 209-242.
  70. Kowalewski, M. (1993) Morphometric analysis of predatory drillholes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 102: 69-88.
  71. Kowalewski, M., and Misniakiewicz, W. (1993) Reliability of quantitative data on fossil assemblages: a model, a simulation, and an example. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie  und Paläontologie, Abhlandungen, 187: 243-260.
  72. Kowalewski, M. (1991) Tafonomia -- dyscyplina w Polsce ignorowana. Taphonomy -- a branch ignored in Poland (in Polish with English summary). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 61: 257-264.
  73. Kowalewski, M. (1990) A hermeneutic analysis of the shell-drilling gastropod predation on mollusks in the Korytnica Clays (Middle Miocene; Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland). Acta Geologica Polonica, 40: 183-213.


Short Contributions to Peer-Review Journals (Editorials, Notes, Reviews, Comments, Replies, Etc.)

  1. LaBarbera, M., and Kowalewski, M., (2004) Vacationing in the Mesozoic: Palaios 19: 421-422.
  2. Kelley, P.H., Kowalewski, M., and Hansen, T.A. 2003. Preface, p. ix-x. In Kelley, P. H., Kowalewski, M. and Hansen, T. A., eds., Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record. Topics in Geobiology Series 20, Plenum Press/Kluwer, New York.
  3. Kelley, P.H., Kowalewski, M., and Hansen, T.A. (2003) Introduction, p. 1-3. In Kelley, P. H., Kowalewski, M. and Hansen, T. A., eds., Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record: Topics in Geobiology Series 20, Plenum Press/Kluwer, New York.
  4. Kowalewski, M., and Kelley, P.H. (2002) Introduction, in Kowalewski, M., and Kelley, P. H., eds., The Fossil Record of Predation: Paleontological Society Special Papers 8: 1-2.
  5. Kowalewski, M. (2001) Applied marine paleoecology: An oxymoron or reality. Palaios 16, 309-310.
  6. Kowalewski, M. (1999) Actuopaleontology: the strength of its limitations. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 44:452-454.
  7. Kowalewski, M., Dulai, A., and Fürsich, F.T. (1999) A fossil record full of holes: The Phaneorozoic history of drilling predation: Reply. Geology 27: 959-960.
  8. Flessa, K.W., Kowalewski, M., and Walker, S.E. (1992) Post-collection taphonomy: shell destruction and the Chevrolet. Palaios 7:555-556.


Citations and Responses

  1. Flessa, K. W., (2006) Presentation of the Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society to Michal Kowalewski. Journal of Paleontology 80: 804.
  2. Kowalewski, M., (2006) Response by Michal Kowalewski. Journal of Paleontology 80: 805-806.

Book Translations
  1. West, N. Bluelist. (Fiction) First English ed. (1989) Polish translation titled "Blekitna Lista". Translated by M. KOWALEWSKI; Warsaw, Poland, PLJ Press, (1991). 201pp.


Michal Kowalewski
Department of Geosciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0420, USA