ABSTRACT
A selection of papers presented at the 13th International Conference of the International Bryozoology Association held in Concepci n Chile in January 2004 and hosted by the Universidad de Concepci n and Universidad Cat lica de la Sant ma Concepci n. The topics presented in this volume reflect the diversity of studies on bryozoa with authors from 18
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Late Miocene Bryozoa from the Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain): eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean environment and biogeography
B. Berning P. Moissette
chapter |18 pages
Bryozoa of the Romaine and Mingan Formations (Lower and Middle Ordovician) of the Mingan Islands, Quebec, Canada
Thomas E. Bolton (deceased) Roger J. Cuffey
chapter |6 pages
Bryozoan species and roles in small ‘Waulsortian-like’ mud-mound bioherms in the Mississippian of the American Mid-West
Roger J. Cuffey
chapter |14 pages
Lower Carboniferous Bryozoa from some localities in Sauerland, Germany
Andrej Ernst
chapter |14 pages
Taxonomic composition and structure of bryozoan-associated biofilms from Japan and New Zealand
G. Gerdes J. Kaselowsky
chapter |16 pages
The cheilostomatous genera of Alcide d’Orbigny – nomenclatural and taxonomic status
Dennis P. Gordon Paul D. Taylor
chapter |8 pages
Oshurkovia: a new genus of Umbonulidae (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the northwest Pacific
Andrei V. Grischenko & Shunsuke F. Mawatari
chapter |12 pages
Diversity, evolution and palaeoecology of the Tertiary bryozoan assemblages of western Kachchh, Gujarat, India
Asit K. Guha & K. Gopikrishna
chapter |12 pages
Gigantism in Permian trepostomes from Greenland: testing the algal symbiosis hypothesis using C and O values
Marcus M. Key, Jr. Patrick N. Wyse Jackson
chapter |8 pages
Bryozoan mode of life in the high Arctic dynamic fjordic environment, Spitsbergen
Piotr Kuklinski
chapter |12 pages
Bryodiversity on coastal boulders at Spitsbergen
chapter |6 pages
The potential role of microbial activity and mineralization in exoskeletal development in Microporellidae
Penny A. Morris Dorothy F. Soule
chapter |10 pages
Bryozoa of the CIMAR-7 Expedition to the Aysenian fjords and channels, southern Chile
Hugo I. Moyano G.
chapter |8 pages
Submarine freshwater springs in the Adriatic Sea: a unique habitat for the bryozoan Pentapora fascialis
Maja Novosel Goran Olujic
chapter |8 pages
Ovicell development in the early calloporid Wilbertopora Cheetham, 1954 (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata) from the mid-Cretaceous of the USA
Andrew N. Ostrovsky Paul D. Taylor
chapter |14 pages
Taxonomy and distribution of Bugula (Bryozoa: Cheilostomata: Anasca) in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
Laís Vieira Ramalho
chapter |12 pages
Bryozoans and stratigraphy, Upper Richmondian (Cincinnatian, Ordovician)
June R.P. Ross Charles A. Ross
chapter |14 pages
Bryozoan facies in deep-sea Pleistocene environments of southern Italy
Antonietta Rosso
chapter |10 pages
Variation in zooid size in two west European species of Alcyonidium (Ctenostomatida)
John S. Ryland & Joanne S. Porter*
chapter |10 pages
Infestation of a temperate reservoir by freshwater bryozoans: an integrated research programme
Abigail M. Smith, Michelle A. Brunton & Peter B. Batson
chapter |14 pages
Ovicell pores and frontal wall pore sieve plates in eastern Pacific Microporellidae
Dorothy F. Soule Penny A. Morris
chapter |12 pages
Freshwater Bryozoa of Italy. A survey of some species from the Italian bryozoan collection of A. Viganò with new records
M.I. Taticchi & G. Pieroni
chapter |12 pages
Preliminary overview of the cheilostome bryozoan Microporella
Paul D. Taylor Shunsuke F. Mawatari
chapter |10 pages
A biogeographical analysis of Indo-West Pacific cheilostome bryozoan faunas
Kevin J. Tilbrook Sammy De Grave
chapter |8 pages
The higher phylogeny of Phylactolaemate bryozoans inferred from 18S ribosomal DNA sequences
Timothy S. Wood & Michael B. Lore
chapter |8 pages
A bryozoan fauna from the Carboniferous (Mississippian, Late Viséan) of the Velbert Anticline, Germany
Patrick N. Wyse Jackson Hans Martin Weber
chapter |14 pages
A bryozoan and foraminifera association from the Miocene of Podbrezice, south Moravia (Czech Republic): an environmental history
Kamil Zágorsek Katarína Holcová
