Overview
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- Laurel Collins is a Professor in the Earth and Environment department, specializing in Paleobiology/Paleontology.
research interests
- Dr. Collins investigates environmental changes of the past and the extent to which they have affected evolution, including changes in evolutionary rates, communities, and organismal morphology. The originations and extinctions of fossil foraminiferal taxa and their ecology/paleoecology are used to identify evolutionary, paleoceanographic, paleoclimatic and tectonic trends through time.
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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2021Foraminiferal communities of a mid-Holocene reef: Isla Colon, Caribbean PanamaFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110042 Web of Science: 000604584600007
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2019Historical seagrass abundance of Florida Bay, USA, based on a foraminiferal proxyFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10933-019-00072-6 Web of Science: 000467649300002
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2017PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF THE UPPER MIOCENE TUIRA FORMATION, DARIEN, PANAMAFull Text via DOI: 10.2113/gsjfr.47.1.9 Web of Science: 000418395200003
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2013BIOGEOGRAPHIC EFFECTS OF THE CLOSING CENTRAL AMERICAN SEAWAY ON BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA OF VENEZUELAFull Text via DOI: 10.5343/bms.2013.1006 Web of Science: 000326555900010
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2013ENVIRONMENTAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE IN SEAS ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMAFull Text via DOI: 10.5343/bms.2013.1018 Web of Science: 000326555900002
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2013Correspondence of historic salinity fluctuations in Florida Bay, USA, to atmospheric variability and anthropogenic changesFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10933-011-9534-9 Web of Science: 000313728000008
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2013Response of diatom assemblages to 130 years of environmental change in Florida Bay (USA)Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10933-011-9556-3 Web of Science: 000313728000007
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2012Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus storage in subtropical seagrass meadows: examples from Florida Bay and Shark BayFull Text via DOI: 10.1071/MF12101 Web of Science: 000311409300003
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2010MARINE PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF MIOCENE-PLIOCENE FORMATIONS OF NORTH-CENTRAL FALCON STATE, VENEZUELAFull Text via DOI: 10.2113/gsjfr.40.3.266 Web of Science: 000279380600006
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2005
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2004The geology of the Darien, Panama, and the late Miocene-Pliocene collision of the Panama arc with northwestern South AmericaFull Text via DOI: 10.1130/B25275.1 Web of Science: 000225006700003
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2003Early neogene history of the Central American arc from Bocas del Toro, western PanamaFull Text via DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2003)115<0271:ENHOTC>2.0.CO;2 Web of Science: 000181194700002
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2002Latitudinal difference in biodiversity caused by higher tropical rate of increaseFull Text via DOI: 10.1073/pnas.122241499 Web of Science: 000176217700009
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2002Controls on facies and sequence stratigraphy of an upper Miocene carbonate ramp and platfonn, Melilla basin, NE MoroccoFull Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(01)00131-2 Web of Science: 000173504300005
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1999MicropaleontologyWeb of Science: 000081641300046
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1998MicropaleontologyWeb of Science: 000071807500052
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1997The distribution of Recent benthic foraminifera across habitats of Bocas del Toro, Caribbean PanamaFull Text via DOI: 10.2113/gsjfr.27.3.232 Web of Science: A1997XM67100006
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1996Earliest evolution associated with closure of the Tropical American SeawayFull Text via DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.12.6069 Web of Science: A1996UQ45500073
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1996The late Miocene Panama isthmian straitFull Text via DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0687:TLMPIS>2.3.CO;2
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1993Neogene paleoenvironments of the Bocas del Toro Basin, PanamaFull Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0022336000037008
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1989Evolutionary rates of a rapid radiation: the Paleogene planktic foraminiferaFull Text via DOI: 10.2307/3514773
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1988The faunal structure of a mid‐Cretaceous rudist reef coreFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1988.tb02079.x
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1987On the value of taxonomic standardization in evolutionary studiesFull Text via DOI: 10.1017/S009483730000871X
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Conference
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Other Scholarly Work
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2003Controls on facies and sequence stratigraphy of an upper Miocene carbonate ramp and platform (vol 146, pg 285, 2002). 191-192.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(02)00105-7 Web of Science: 000179724200007
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Review
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2016Formation of the Isthmus of PanamaFull Text via DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1600883 Web of Science: 000383734300039
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2007Relationship of benthic foraminiferal diversity to paleoproductivity in the Neogene Caribbean. 223-245.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.05.017 Web of Science: 000251204200002
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2007Trends in Caribbean Paleoproductivity related to the Neogene closure of the Central American Seaway. 57-74.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2006.11.003 Web of Science: 000246158600004
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Pletka, Crystal, Neogene Changes in Caribbean Paleoproductivity and the Diversity and Paleobiogeography of Deep-sea Benthic Foraminifera 2016
- Powell, Jacqueline Bowen, Larger Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy, Systematics And Paleoenvironments of The Avon Park Formation and Ocala Limestone, Highlands County, Florida 2010
- Cheng, Jie, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Florida Bay, South Florida, Using Benthic Foraminifera 2009
- Wachnicka, Anna Honorata, Quantitative Diatom-Based Reconstruction of Paleoenvironmental Conditions in Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay, U.S.A. 2009
Research
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Contact
full name
- Laurel Collins
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4181-7271 (confirmed)
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