Publications: Roy E. Plotnick

Book

Middleton, G., R. Plotnick, and D. Rubens. 1995 Fractals and Non-linear Dynamics: New Numerical Techniques for Sedimentary Data. SEPM Short Course. 36., 174 pp.

Papers: Peer reviewed journals and books

Eldredge, N. and R. Plotnick, 1974. A revision of the pseudoniscine merostome genus Cyamocephalus Currie. American Museum Notivates, 2557:1-10.

Plotnick, R., 1980. The relationship between biological extinctions and geomagnetic reversals. Geology, 8:578-581.

Plotnick, R. 1985, Lift-based mechanisms for swimming in eurypterids and portunid crabs. Trans. Royal Society Edinburgh, 76:325-337.

Plotnick, R. 1986a, Taphonomy of a modern shrimp: implications for the arthropod fossil record. Palaios 1:286-293.

Plotnick, R. 1986b. A fractal model for the distribution of stratigraphic hiatuses. J. Geol. 94:885-890.

Plotnick, R., T. Baumiller, and K. Wetmore. 1988. Fossilization potential of the mud crab Panopeus (Brachyura:Xanthidae) and time dependence in crustacean taphonomy.
Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 63:27-43

Plotnick, R. 1988. A fractal model for the distribution of stratigraphic hiatuses: a reply. J. Geol., 96:102-103.

Plotnick, R. and T. Baumiller. 1988. The pterygotid telson as a biological rudder. Lethaia, 21:13-27.

Baumiller, T. and R. Plotnick. 1989. Rotational stability in stalked crinoids and the function of the wing plates of Pterotocrinus. Lethaia, 22:317-326.

Plotnick, R. and G. Harris. 1989. X-ray analysis using energy dispersive and wavelength dispersive spectroscopy. p.179-185 IN Feldmann, R., R. Chapman, and J. Hannibal (eds.), Paleotechniques. Paleontological Society Special Publication no. 4.

Plotnick, R. 1989. Application of bootstrap methods to reduced major axis line fitting. Systematic Zoology, 38:144-153.

Plotnick, R.E., S. McCarroll, and E. Powell. 1990. Crab death assemblages from Laguna Madre and vicinity, Texas. Palaios, 5:81-87

Plotnick, R. 1990. Evolution of the arthropod cuticle. pp. 177-196 IN Mikulic, D., ed., Arthropod Paleobiology. Short Courses in Paleontology, number 3.

Wetmore, K. and R. Plotnick. 1992. Correlations between test morphology, crushing strength, and habitat in some large foraminifera from Bermuda. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 22:1-12.

Plotnick, R. and K. Prestegaard. 1993. Fractal analysis of geologic time series. p. 193-210 IN Lam. N. and L. DeCola (eds.) Fractals in Geography. PTR Prentice-Hall.

Plotnick, R. and M. McKinney. 1993. Ecosystem organization and extinction dynamics. Palaios , 8:202-212

Plotnick, R. and R. Gardner. 1993. Lattices and landscapes. Lectures on Mathematics in the Life Sciences, 23:129-157.

Plotnick, R., R. Gardner, and R. O'Neill. 1993. Lacunarity indices as measures of landscape texture. Landscape Ecology, 8: 201-211.

Plotnick, R. and K. Prestegaard. 1995. Fractal methods for the analysis of stratigraphic sequences. p. 73-96. IN: C. Barton and P. LaPointe, eds. Fractals in Petroleum Geology and Earth Processes. Plenum.

Prestegaard, K. and R. Plotnick. 1995. New models require new data: multifractal models of gravel bedload transport. p. 113-126 IN: C. Barton and P. LaPointe, eds. Fractals in Petroleum Geology and Earth Processes. Plenum

Plotnick , R. and D. Elliott , 1995. A Lower Devonian stylonurid eurypterid from Arctic Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 69:399-401.

Plotnick, R., R. Gardner, W. Hargrove, K. Prestegaard, and M. Perlmutter. 1996. Lacunarity analysis: a general technique for the analysis of spatial patterns. Physical Review E, 53:5461-5468.

Plotnick, R. 1997. Eurypterids. p. 208-210 IN Shabica, C. and A. Hay (eds.) Richardson's Guide to the Fossil Fauna of Mazon Creek. Northeastern Illinois University

Aaronson, R. and R. Plotnick. 1998. Coordinated stasis and community integration: a scale-independent interpretation of macroevolutionary dynamics. P. 430-450 IN McKinney, M. & J. Drake (ed.). Biodiversity Dynamics . Columbia.

Jiang, J. and R. Plotnick. 1998. Fractal analysis of the coastlines of the United States. Mathematical Geology, 30: 535-546.

Plotnick, R. 1999. Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterid communities. P. 106-131. IN: Boucot, A. and J. Lawson (ed.) Paleocommunities: A Case Study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian. Cambridge University Press

Plotnick, R. 1999. Landscape ecology and quantitative stratigraphy: parallel perspectives on spatial heterogeneity. Pp. 271-278 IN: Harbaugh, et al., eds. Numerical Experiments in Stratigraphy, SEPM Special Publications, no. 62

Plotnick, R.E. 1999. Creating models for interpreting data. Pp. 343-360 IN J. Scotchmoor and D. Springer, eds. Evolution: Investigating the Evidence. Paleontological Society Special Publication 9.

Plotnick, R. and T. Baumiller. 2000. Invention by evolution: functional analysis in paleobiology. Pp. 305-323 In: Erwin, D.H. and S. L. Wing, eds. Deep Time: Paleobiology’s Perspective. (Supplement to vol. 26(4) of Paleobiology). Paleontological Society.

Plotnick. R. and J.J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2001. A multiplicative multifractal model for originations and extinctions. Paleobiology, 27:126-139.

Plotnick, R. and R. Gardner. 2002. A general model for simulating the effects of landscape heterogeneity and disturbance on community patterns. Ecological Modeling ,147: 171-197

Plotnick, R. 2003. Ecological and L-system based simulations of trace fossils. Palaeogeog., Palaeoclim., Palaeoecol. 192: 45-58.

Lofgren, A. S., R. Plotnick, and P. Wagner, 2003. Morphological diversity of Carboniferous arthropods and insights on disparity patterns through the Phanerozoic Paleobiology 29(3):350-369

Perlmutter, M.A. and R.E. Plotnick, 2003. Hemispheric asymmetry of the stratigraphic record: conceptual proof of unipolar glaciation, in C.B Cecil and N. T. Edgar (ed.), Climate Controls on Stratigraphy, SEPM Spec. Pub. 77: 51-68.

Gardner, R. H., Forester, J. D. and Plotnick, R. E., in press. Determining pattern-process relationships in heterogeneous landscapes. In Wu, J. and Hobbs, R. J. (Eds.), Key Topics and Perspectives in Landscape Ecology. Cambridge University Press.

Conference Proceedings
Plotnick, R. and M. Perlmutter. 1997. Lacunarity analysis of cyclic stratigraphic sequences. p. 513-518 IN Pawlowsky-Glahn, V. (ed. ) Proc. IAMG ‘97. CIMNE, Barcelona.
Perlmutter, M. and R. Plotnick. 2002 Predictable variations in the marine stratigraphic record of the Northern and Southern hemispheres and reservoir potential., 22^ndAnnual Gulf Coast SEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, p. 232-258.

Articles and Essays
Plotnick, R. 1990. Eurypterids. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 7th ed.

Plotnick, R. 1993. Taphonomy: perfecting the fossil record. Geotimes, November, 1993, 14-16

Plotnick, R. 1996. The scourge of the Silurian seas. American Paleontologist, 4(1):2-3.

Plotnick, R. 1996. The ecological play and the geological theater. Palaios, 11:207-208.

Plotnick, R. 1997. Wonderful interactions: the Digital Burgess conference. American Paleontologist, 5(4):2-4.

Invited Book Reviews
Plotnick, R. 1988. Review of Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns,, James W. Valentine, ed. Princeton. Univ. Press. J. Geology, 96:384-385.

Plotnick, R. 1989. Review of Extinction, Steve Stanley. J. Geology, 97:349.

Plotnick, R. 1994. Review of Fractals and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics, by D. Turcotte. J. Geology. ,102

Plotnick, R. 2000. Review of: Numerical Paleobiology: Computer-Based Modelling and Analysis of Fossils and their Distributions, edited by David A. T. Harper. American Paleontologist. 8:12-13.

Plotnick, R. 2003. Review of: Self-Organized Criticality in Earth Systems, by Stefan Hergarten, Palaios, 18:588-589