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Publications

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Bowen G. J., Ehleringer J. R., Chesson L. A., Stange E. and Cerling T. E. (2007) Stable isotope ratios of tap water in the contiguous USA. Water Resources Research, 43, W03419.

Bowen G. J., Ehleringer J. R. and Cerling T. E. (2007) Stable isotopes and human water resources: signals of change. In Stable Isotopes as Indicators of Ecological Change (ed. T. E. Dawson and R. Siegwolf), pp. 285-300. Elsevier Academic Press.

Cerling T. E., Bowen G. J., Ehleringer J. R. and Sponheimer M. (2007) The reaction progress variable and isotope turnover in biological systems. In Stable Isotopes as Indicators of Ecological Change (ed. T. Dawson and R. Siegwolf), pp. 163-172. Elsevier Academic Press.

Sluijs A., Bowen G. J., Brinkhuis H., Lourens L. J. and Thomas E. (2007) The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum super greenhouse: Biotic and geochemical signatures, age models and mechanisms of global change. In Deep Time Perspectives on Climate Change (ed. M. Williams, A. Haywood, J. Gregory and D. N. Schmidt), pp. 323-349. Geological Society of London, TMS Special Publication.

Ting S.-Y., Meng J., Qian L., Wang Y.-Q., Tong Y.-S., Schiebout J. A., Koch P. L., Clyde W. C., Bowen G. J. (2007) Ganungulatum xincunliense, an artiodactyl-like mammal (Ungulata, Mammalia) from the Paleocene, Chijiang Basin, Jiangxi, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 45, 278-286.

Tu K. P., Bowen G. J., Hemming D. H., Kahmen A., Knohl A., Lai C. T. and Werner C. (2007) Stable isotopes as indicators, tracers and recorders of ecological change: Synthesis and outlook. In Stable Isotopes as Indicators of Ecological Change (ed. T. E. Dawson and R. Siegwolf), pp. 399-405. Elsevier Academic Press.

Bowen G. J. , Bralower T. J., Delaney M. L., Dickens G. R., Kelly D. C., Koch P. L., Kump L. R., Meng J., Sloan L. C., Thomas E., Wing S. L. and Zachos J. C. (2006) Eocene hyperthermal event offers insight into greenhouse warming. Eos: Transactions of the American Geophysical Union , 87, 165 - 169.

Fox-Dobbs K., Stidham T. A., Bowen G. J., Emslie S. D. and Koch P. L. (2006) Dietary controls on extinction versus survival among avian megafauna in the late Pleistocene. Geology, 34, 685 - 688.

West J. B., Bowen G. J. , Cerling T. E. and Ehleringer J. R. (2006) Stable isotopes as one of nature's ecological recorders. Trends in Ecology & Evolution , 21, 408-414, doi:10.1016/j.tree.2006.04.002.

Bowen G. J. , Chesson L., Nielson K., Cerling T. E. and Ehleringer J. R. (2005) Treatment methods for the determination of d 2 H and d 18 O of hair keratin by continuous-flow isotope-ratio mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry , 19, 2371-2378, doi:10.1002/rcm.2069.

Bowen G. J. , Koch P. L., Meng J., Ye J. and Ting S. (2005) Stratigraphy and correlation of fossiliferous late Paleocene-early Eocene strata of the Erlian Basin, Inner Mongolia, China. American Museum Novitates , 3474, 1-26.

Bowen G. J. , Wassenaar L. I. and Hobson K. A. (2005) Global application of stable hydrogen and oxygen isotopes to wildlife forensics. Oecologia , 143, 337-348, doi:10.1007/s00442-004-1813-y.

Bowen G. J. , Winter D. A., Spero H. J., Zierenberg R. A., Cerling T. E. and Ehleringer J. R. (2005) Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios of bottled waters of the world. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry , 19, 3442-3450, doi:10.1002/rcm.2216.

Bearhop S., Fiedler W., Furness R. W., Votier S. C., Waldron S., Newton J., Bowen G. J. , Berthold P. and Farnsworth K. (2005) Assortative mating as a mechanism for rapid evolution of a migratory divide. Science , 310, 502-504, doi:10.1126/science.1115661 .

Coe R. S., Stock G. M, Lyons J. J., Beitler B. and Bowen G. J. (2005) Yellowstone hotspot volcanism in California? A paleomagnetic test of the Lovejoy flood basalt hypothesis. Geology , 33, 697-700, doi:10.1130/G21733.1.

Dutton A., Wilkinson B. H., Welker J. M., Bowen G. J. and Lohmann K. C. (2005) Spatial distribution and seasonal variation in 18 O/ 16 O of modern precipitation and river water across the conterminous United States. Hydrological Processes , 19, 4121-4146, doi:10.1002/hyp.5876.

Meng J., Wyss A. R., Hu Y., Wang Y., Bowen G. J. and Koch P. L. (2005) Glires (Mammalia) from the Late Paleocene Bayan Ulan Locality of Inner Mongolia. American Museum Novitates , 3473, 1-25.

Bowen G. J. , Beerling D. J., Koch P. L., Zachos J. C. and Quattlebaum T. (2004) A humid climate state during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Nature , 432, 495-499.

Bowen G. J. and Beerling D. J. (2004) An integrated model for soil organic carbon and CO 2 : Implications for paleosol carbonate p CO 2 paleobarometry. Global Biogeochemical Cycles , 18, GB1026, doi:10.1029/2003GB002117 .

Hobson K. A., Bowen G. J. , Wassenaar L. I., Ferrand Y. and Lormee H. (2004) Using stable hydrogen isotope measurements of feathers to infer geographical origins of migrating European birds. Oecologia , 141, 477-488.

Meng J., Bowen G. J. , Koch P. L., Ting S., Li Q. and Jin X. (2004) Gomphos elkema from the Erlian Basin: Evidence for the Early Tertiary Bumbanian Land Mammal Age in Nei-Mongol, China. American Museum Novitates , 3425 , 1-25.

Ting S., Wang Y., Schiebout J. A., Koch P. L., Clyde W. C., Bowen G. J. and Wang Y. (2004) New Early Eocene mammalian fossils from the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History , 36, 291-301 .

Bowen G. J. and Revenaugh J. (2003) Interpolating the isotopic composition of modern meteoric precipitation. Water Resources Research , 39 , 1299, doi:10.129/2003WR002086.

Bains S., Norris R. D., Corfield R. M., Bowen G. J. , Gingerich P. D. and Koch P. L. (2003) Marine-terrestrial linkages at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. In Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene (ed. S. L. Wing, P. D. Gingerich, B. Schmitz, and E. Thomas), pp. 1-9. Geological Society of America .

Ting S., Bowen G. J. , Koch P. L., Clyde W. C., Wang Y., Wang Y. and McKenna M. C. (2003) Biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and magnetostratigraphic study across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China. In Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene (ed. S. L. Wing, P. D. Gingerich, B. Schmitz, and E. Thomas), pp. 521-535. Geological Society of America .

Wing S. L., Harrington G. J., Bowen G. J. and Koch P. L. (2003) Floral change during the Initial Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming. In Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene (ed. S. L. Wing, P. D. Gingerich, B. Schmitz, and E. Thomas) pp. 425-440. Geological Society of America.

Bowen G. J. and Bloch J. I. (2002) Petrography and geochemistry of floodplain limestones from the Clarks Fork basin, Wyoming, U.S.A.: Carbonate deposition and fossil accumulation on a Paleocene-Eocene floodplain. Journal of Sedimentary Research , 72 , 46-58.

Bowen G. J. , Clyde W. C., Koch P. L., Ting S., Alroy J., Tsubamoto T., Wang Y. and Wang Y. (2002) Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Science , 295 , 2062-2065.

Bowen G. J. and Wilkinson B. (2002) Spatial distribution of d 18 O in meteoric precipitation. Geology , 30 , 315-318.

Bowen G. J. , Koch P. K., Gingerich P. D., Norris R. D., Bains S. and Corfield R. M. (2001) Refined isotope stratigraphy across the continental Paleocene-Eocene boundary on Polecat Bench in the Northern Bighorn Basin. In Paleocene-Eocene Stratigraphy and Biotic Change in the Bighorn and Clarks Fork Basins, Wyoming (ed. P. D. Gingerich), pp. 73-88. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology, 33.

Bloch J. I. and Bowen G. J. (2001) Paleocene-Eocene microvertebrates in freshwater limestones of the Willwood Formation, Clarks Fork basin, Wyoming . In Eocene Biodiversity: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats (ed. G. F. Gunnell), pp. 95-129. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.