Wing, Scott

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Department / Division

Education

B.S., Yale University
Ph.D., Yale University

Research Interests

Paleoecology; Cenozoic and Mesozoic paleoclimate; angiosperm history and systematics; fossil plants of the Rocky Mountain region; plant taphonomy.

Publications

Carvalho, Mónica R., Jaramillo, Carlos, de La Parra, Felipe, Caballero-Rodríguez, Dayenari, Herrera, Fabiany, Wing, Scott, Turner, Benjamin L., D'Apolito, Carlos, Romero-Báez, Millerlandy, Narváez, Paula, Martínez, Camila, Gutierrez, Mauricio, Labandeira, Conrad C., Bayona, German, Rueda, Milton, Paez-Reyes, Manuel, Cárdenas, Dairon, Duque, Álvaro, Crowley, James L., Santos, Carlos, and Silvestro, Daniele. 2021. "Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests." Science 372 (6537):63-68. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abf1969
Denis, Elizabeth H., Maibauer, Bianca J., Bowen, Gabriel J., Jardine, Phillip E., Harrington, Guy J., Baczynski, Allison A., McInerney, Francesca A., Collinson, Margaret E., Belcher, Claire M., Wing, Scott L., and Freeman, Katherine H. 2021. "Decreased soil carbon in a warming world: Degraded pyrogenic carbon during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 566:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116970
Manchester, Steven R., Zhang, Xiaoqing, Hotton, Carol L., Wing, Scott L., and Crane, Peter R. 2021. "Distinctive quadrangular seed-bearing structures of gnetalean affinity from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation of Utah, USA." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19 (10):743-760. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2021.1968522
Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Jukar, Advait M., Toth, Aniko B., Fraser, Danielle, Du, Andrew, Barr, W. Andrew, Amatangelo, Kathryn L., Balk, Meghan A., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Blois, Jessica, Davis, Matt, Eronen, Jussi T., Gotelli, Nicholas J., Looy, Cindy, Miller, Joshua H., Shupinski, Alexandria B., Soul, Laura C., Villasenor, Amelia, Wing, Scott, and Lyons, S. Kathleen. 2020. "Body mass-related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America." Ecography https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05027
Stull, Gregory W., Tiffney, Bruce H., Manchester, Steven R., Del Rio, Cedric, and Wing, Scott L. 2020. "Endocarps of Pyrenacantha (Icacinaceae) from the Early Oligocene of Egypt." International journal of plant sciences 181 (4):432-442. https://doi.org/10.1086/706854
Baczynski, Allison A., McInerney, Francesca A., Freeman, Katherine H., and Wing, Scott L. 2019. "Carbon isotope record of trace n-alkanes in a continental PETM section recovered by the Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP)." Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34 (5):853-865. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003579
Diefendorf, Aaron F., Leslie, Andrew B., and Wing, Scott L. 2019. "A phylogenetic analysis of conifer diterpenoids and their carbon isotopes for chemotaxonomic applications." Organic Geochemistry 127:50-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.11.007
Fetter, Karl C., Eberhardt, Sven, Barclay, Rich S., Wing, Scott L., and Keller, Stephen R. 2019. "StomataCounter: a neural network for automatic stomata identification and counting." New Phytologist 223 (3):1671-1681. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15892
Graham, Heather V., Herrera, Fabiany, Jaramillo, Carlos, Wing, Scott L., and Freeman, Katherine H. 2019. "Canopy structure in Late Cretaceous and Paleocene forests as reconstructed from carbon isotope analyses of fossil leaves." Geology 47:1-5. https://doi.org/10.1130/G46152.1
Herrera, Fabiany, Carvalho, Mónica, Wing, Scott L., Jaramillo, Carlos, and Herendeen, Patrick S. 2019. "Middle to Late Paleocene Leguminosae fruits and leaves from Colombia." Australian Systematic Botany 32 (6):385-408. https://doi.org/10.1071/SB19001

Soul, Laura C., Barclay, Richard S., Bolton, Amy, and Wing, Scott L. 2019. "Fossil Atmospheres: a case study of citizen science in question-driven palaeontological research." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 374 (1763):20170388. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2017.0388
Wing, Scott L. 2019. "Presentation of the 2018 Paleontological Society Medal to Anna K. Behrensmeyer." Journal of Paleontology 93 (5):1036-1037. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2019.41
Simpson, Andrew G., Wagner, Peter J., Wing, Scott L., and Fenster, Charles B. 2018. "Binary-state speciation and extinction method is conditionally robust to realistic violations of its assumptions." Bmc Evolutionary Biology 18:69-69. https://doi.org/10.1186/S12862-018-1174-5
Waters, Colin N., Zalasiewicz, Jan, Summerhayes, Colin, Fairchild, Ian J., Rose, Neil L., Loader, Neil J., Shotyk, William, Cearreta, Alejandro, Head, Martin J., Syvitski, James P. M., Williams, Mark, Wagreich, Michael, Barnosky, Anthony D., Zhisheng, An, Leinfelder, Reinhold, Jeandel, Catherine, Gałuszka, Agnieszka, Ivar do Sul, Juliana A., Gradstein, Felix, Steffen, Will, McNeill, John R., Wing, Scott L., Poirier, Clément, and Edgeworth, Matt. 2018. "Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene Series: Where and how to look for potential candidates." Earth-Science Reviews 178:379-429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.12.016
Westerhold, Thomas, Roehl, Ursula, Wilkens, Roy H., Gingerich, Philip D., Clyde, William C., Wing, Scott L., Bowen, Gabriel J., and Kraus, Mary J. 2018. "Synchronizing early Eocene deep-sea and continental records - cyclostratigraphic age models for the Bighorn Basin Coring Project drill cores." Climate of the Past 14 (3):303-319. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-303-2018
Baczynski, Allison A., McInerney, Francesca A., Wing, Scott L., Kraus, Mary J., Bloch, Jonathan I., and Secord, Ross. 2017. "Constraining paleohydrologic change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the continental interior of North America." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 465 (Part A):237-246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.10.030
Wing, Scott L. 2017. "Thinking Like a Mountain in the Anthropocene." in Living in the Anthropocene Earth in the Age of Humans, edited by Kress, W. John and Stein, J. K., 18-22. Smithsonian Books.
Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M., Waters, C. N., Barnosky, A. D., Palmesino, J., Ro nnskog, A. -S, Edgeworth, M., Neal, C., Cearreta, A., Ellis, E. C., Grinevald, J., Haff, P., Ivar, do Sul, Jeandel, C., Leinfelder, R., McNeill, J. R., Odada, E., Oreskes, N., Price, S. J., Revkin, A., Steffen, W., Summerhayes, C., Vidas, D., Wing, Scott L., and Wolfe, A. P. 2017. "Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective." The Anthropocene Review 4 (1):9-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019616677743
Zalasiewicz, Jan, Waters, Colin N., Wolfe, Alexander P., Barnosky, Anthony D., Cearreta, Alejandro, Edgeworth, Matt, Ellis, Erle C., Fairchild, Ian J., Gradstein, Felix M., Grinevald, Jacques, Haff, Peter, Head, Martin J., Ivar do Sul, Juliana A., Jeandel, Catherine, Leinfelder, Reinhold, McNeill, John R., Oreskes, Naomi, Poirier, Clement, Revkin, Andrew, Richter, Daniel deB, Steffen, Will, Summerhayes, Colin, Syvitski, James P. M., Vidas, Davor, Wagreich, Michael et al. 2017. "Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: an analysis of ongoing critiques." Newsletters on Stratigraphy 50 (2):205-226. https://doi.org/10.1127/nos/2017/0385
Baczynski, Allison A., McInerney, Francesca A., Wing, Scott L., Kraus, Mary J., Morse, Paul E., Bloch, Jonathan I., Chung, Angela H., and Freeman, Katherine H. 2016. "Distortion of carbon isotope excursion in bulk soil organic matter during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum." Geological Society of America Bulletin 128 (9/10):1352-1366. https://doi.org/10.1130/B31389.1
Barclay, Richard S. and Wing, Scott L. 2016. "Improving the Ginkgo CO₂ barometer: Implications for the early Cenozoic atmosphere." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 439:158-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.01.012
Currano, Ellen D., Laker, Rachel, Flynn, Andrew G., Fogt, Kari K., Stradtman, Hillary, and Wing, Scott L. 2016. "Consequences of elevated temperature and pCO2 on insect folivory at the ecosystem level: perspectives from the fossil record." Ecology and Evolution 6 (13):4318-4331. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2203
Lunt, Daniel J., Huber, Matthew, Baatsen, Michiel L. J., Caballero, Rodrigo, DeConto, Rob, Donnadieu, Yannick, Evans, David, Feng, Ran, Foster, Gavin, Gasson, Ed, von, der Heydt, Hollis, Chris J., Kirtland Turner, Sandy, Korty, Robert L., Kozdon, Reinhardt, Krishnan, Srinath, Ladant, Jean-Baptiste, Langebroek, Petra, Lear, Caroline H., LeGrande, Allegra N., Littler, Kate, Markwick, Paul, Otto-Bliesner, Bette, Pearson, Paul, Poulsen, Chris et al. 2016. "DeepMIP: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM." Geoscientific Model Development Discussions 1-16. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2016-127
Lyons, S. Kathleen, Amatangelo, Kathryn L., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bercovici, Antoine, Blois, Jessica L., Davis, Matt, DiMichele, William A., Du, Andrew, Eronen, Jussi T., Faith, J. Tyler, Graves, Gary R., Jud, Nathan, Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., McGill, Brian, Miller, Joshua H., Patterson, David, Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Potts, Richard, Riddle, Brett, Terry, Rebecca, Tóth, Anikó, Ulrich, Werner, Villaseñor, Amelia, Wing, Scott L. et al. 2016. "Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts." Nature (529): 80-83. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16447
Lyons, S. Kathleen, Miller, Joshua H., Amatange, Kathryn L., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bercovici, Antoine, Blois, Jessica L., Davis, Matt, DiMichele, William A., Du, Andrew, Eronen, Jussi T., Faith, J. T., Graves, Gary R., Jud, Nathan, Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., McGill, Brian, Patterson, David, Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Potts, Richard, Riddle, Brett, Terry, Rebecca, Tóth, Anikó, Ulrich, Werner, Villaseñor, Amelia, Wing, Scott L. et al. 2016. "Lyons et al. reply." Nature 538 (7626):E3-E4. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20097
Lyons, S. Kathleen, Miller, Joshua H., Tóth, Anikó, Amatangelo, Kathryn L., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bercovici, Antoine, Blois, Jessica L., Davis, Matt, DiMichele, William A., Du, Andrew, Eronen, Jussi T., Faith, J. T., Graves, Gary R., Jud, Nathan, Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., McGill, Brian, Patterson, David, Pineda-Munoz, Silvia, Potts, Richard, Riddle, Brett, Terry, Rebecca, Ulrich, Werner, Villaseñor, Amelia, Wing, Scott L. et al. 2016. "Questioning Holocene community shifts Reply." Nature 537 (7618):E5-E6. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19111
Steffen, Will, Leinfelder, Reinhold, Zalasiewicz, Jan, Waters, Colin N., Williams, Mark, Summerhayes, Colin, Barnosky, Anthony D., Cearreta, Alejandro, Crutzen, Paul, Edgeworth, Matt, Ellis, Erle C., Fairchild, Ian J., Galuszka, Agnieszka, Grinevald, Jacques, Haywood, Alan, do Sul, Juliana Ivar, Jeandel, Catherine, McNeill, J. R., Odada, Eric, Oreskes, Naomi, Revkin, Andrew, Richter, Daniel de B., Syvitski, James, Vidas, Davor, Wagreich, Michael et al. 2016. "Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene." Earth's Future 4 (8):324-345. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016EF000379
Wilf, Peter, Zhang, Shengping, Chikkerur, Sharat, Little, Stefan A., Wing, Scott L., and Serre, Thomas. 2016. "Computer vision cracks the leaf code." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (12):3305-3310. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1524473113
Williams, Mark, Zalasiewicz, Jan, Waters, Colin N., Edgeworth, Matt, Bennett, Carys, Barnosky, Anthony D., Ellis, Erle C., Ellis, Michael A., Cearreta, Alejandro, Haff, Peter K., Ivar do Sul, Juliana A., Leinfelder, Reinhold, McNeill, John R., Odada, Eric, Oreskes, Naomi, Revkin, Andrew, Richter, Daniel deB, Steffen, Will, Summerhayes, Colin, Syvitski, James P., Vidas, Davor, Wagreich, Michael, Wing, Scott L., Wolfe, Alexander P., and Zhisheng, An. 2016. "The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere." Earth's Future 4 (3):34-53. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015EF000339
Bowen, Gabriel J., Maibauer, Bianca J., Kraus, Mary J., Rohl, Ursula, Westerhold, Thomas, Steimke, Amy, Gingerich, Philip D., Wing, Scott L., and Clyde, William C. 2015. "Two massive, rapid releases of carbon during the onset of the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum." Nature geoscience (8): 44-47. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2316
Diefendorf, Aaron F., Freeman, Katherine H., Wing, Scott L., Currano, Ellen D., and Mueller, Kevin E. 2015. "Paleogene plants fractionated carbon isotopes similar to modern plants." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 429:33-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.07.029
Diefendorf, Aaron F., Leslie, Andrew B., and Wing, Scott L. 2015. "Leaf wax composition and carbon isotopes vary among major conifer groups." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 170:145-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.08.018
Zalasiewicz, Jan, Waters, Colin N., Williams, Mark, Barnosky, Anthony D., Cearreta, Alejandro, Crutzen, Paul, Ellis, Erle, Ellis, Michael A., Fairchild, Ian J., Grinevald, Jacques, Haff, Peter K., Hajdas, Irka, Leinfelder, Reinhold, McNeill, John, Odada, Eric O., Poirier, Clément, Richter, Daniel, Steffen, Will, Summerhayes, Colin, Syvitski, James P. M., Vidas, Davor, Wagreich, Michael, Wing, Scott L., Wolfe, Alexander P., An, Zhisheng et al. 2015. "When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal." Quaternary International 283:196-203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.045
Blois, Jessica L., Gotelli, Nicholas J., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Faith, J. T., Lyons, Sara K., Williams, John W., Amatangelo, Kathryn L., Bercovici, Antoine, Du, Andrew, Eronen, Jussi T., Graves, Gary R., Jud, Nathan, Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., McGill, Brian, Patterson, David, Potts, Richard, Riddle, Brett, Terry, Rebecca, Tóth, Anikó, Villaseñor, Amelia, and Wing, Scott L. 2014. "A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary." Ecography 37 (11):1095-1108. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.00779
Bowen, Gabriel J., Maibauer, Bianca J., Kraus, Mary J., Röhl, Ursula, Westerhold, Thomas, Steimke, Amy, Gingerich, Philip D., Wing, Scott L., and Clyde, William C. 2014. [Dataset] "(2014): (Table S5) Time model specification for models assuming a 90 kyr duration of the PETM CIE body." Distributed by https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.839861
Bowen, Gabriel J., Maibauer, Bianca J., Kraus, Mary J., Röhl, Ursula, Westerhold, Thomas, Steimke, Amy, Gingerich, Philip D., Wing, Scott L., and Clyde, William C. 2014. [Dataset] "Carbon and oxygen isotope values for pedogenic carbonate samples collected from Polecat Bench cores A and B organized by stratigraphic level (Table S4)." Distributed by PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817091
Bowen, Gabriel J., Maibauer, Bianca J., Kraus, Mary J., Röhl, Ursula, Westerhold, Thomas, Steimke, Amy, Gingerich, Philip D., Wing, Scott L., and Clyde, William C. 2014. [Dataset] "(2014): (Table S4) Carbon and oxygen isotope values for pedogenic carbonate samples collected from Polecat Bench cores A." Distributed by Nature Geoscience.
Bowen, Gabriel J., Maibauer, Bianca J., Kraus, Mary J., Röhl, Ursula, Westerhold, Thomas, Steimke, Amy, Gingerich, Philip D., Wing, Scott L., and Clyde, William C. 2014. [Dataset] "(2014): (Table S3) Carbon isotope values of diffuse micritic carbonate and associated nodules." Distributed by https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.839819
Bowen, Gabriel J., Maibauer, Bianca J., Kraus, Mary J., Röhl, Ursula, Westerhold, Thomas, Steimke, Amy, Gingerich, Philip D., Wing, Scott L., and Clyde, William C. 2014. [Dataset] "(2014): Color data from BBCP Polecat Bench core 2A." Distributed by https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817099
Bowen, Gabriel J., Maibauer, Bianca J., Kraus, Mary J., Röhl, Ursula, Westerhold, Thomas, Steimke, Amy, Gingerich, Philip D., Wing, Scott L., and Clyde, William C. 2014. [Dataset] "Color data from BBCP Polecat Bench core 2B." Distributed by Pangaea. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817118
Bowen, Gabriel J., Maibauer, Bianca J., Kraus, Mary J., Röhl, Ursula, Westerhold, Thomas, Steimke, Amy, Gingerich, Philip D., Wing, Scott L., and Clyde, William C. 2014. [Dataset] "(2014): (Table S6) Time model specification for models assuming a 135 kyr duration of the PETM CIE body." Distributed by https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.839864
Bowen, Gabriel J., Maibauer, Bianca J., Kraus, Mary J., Röhl, Ursula, Westerhold, Thomas, Steimke, Amy, Gingerich, Philip D., Wing, Scott L., and Clyde, William C. 2014. [Dataset] "(2014): (Table S2) Tie points used to correlate outcrop levels to BBCP cores." Distributed by https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817098
Bowen, Gabriel J., Maibauer, Bianca J., Kraus, Mary J., Röhl, Ursula, Westerhold, Thomas, Steimke, Amy, Gingerich, Philip D., Wing, Scott L., and Clyde, William C. 2014. [Dataset] "Color data, carbon and oxygen isotopes, and offsets from BBCP Polecat Bench cores 2A and 2B. PANGAEA." Distributed by Pangaea. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.817119
Bowen, Gabriel J., Maibauer, Bianca J., Kraus, Mary J., Röhl, Ursula, Westerhold, Thomas, Steimke, Amy, Gingerich, Philip D., Wing, Scott L., and Clyde, William C. 2014. [Dataset] "(2014): (Table S1) Offsets between drilling depths (meters below surface, MBS) of Polecat Bench cores A and B used to develop the composite depth scale (meters composite depth, MCD)." Distributed by
Diefendorf, Aaron F., Freeman, Katherine H., and Wing, Scott L. 2014. "A comparison of terpenoid and leaf fossil vegetation proxies in Paleocene and Eocene Bighorn Basin sediments." Organic Geochemistry 71:30-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.04.004
Graham, Heather V., Patzkowsky, Mark E., Wing, Scott L., Parker, Geoffrey G., Fogel, Marilyn L., and Freeman, Katherine H. 2014. "Isotopic characteristics of canopies in simulated leaf assemblages." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 144:82-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.08.032
Green, Walton A., Little, Stefan A., Price, Charles A., Wing, Scott L., Smith, Selena Y., Kotrc, Benjamin, and Doria, Gabriela. 2014. "Reading the leaves: A comparison of leaf rank and automated areole measurement for quantifying aspects of leaf venation." Applications in Plant Sciences 2 (8):https://doi.org/10.3732/apps.1400006
Herrera, Fabiany, Manchester, Steven R., Carvalho, Mónica R., Jaramillo, Carlos A., and Wing, Scott L. 2014. "Paleocene wind-dispersed fruits and seeds from Colombia and their implications for early Neotropical rainforests." Acta Palaeobotanica 54 (2):197-229. https://doi.org/10.2478/acpa-2014-0008
Little, Stefan A., Green, Walton A., Wing, Scott L., and Wilf, Peter. 2014. "Reinvestigation of Leaf Rank, an Underappreciated Component of Leo Hickey's Legacy." Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 55 (2):79-87. https://doi.org/10.3374/014.055.0202
Peppe, Daniel J., Lemons, Casee R., Royer, Dana L., Wing, Scott L., Wright, Ian J., Lusk, Christopher H., and Rhoden, Chazelle H. 2014. "Biomechanical and leaf–climate relationships: A comparison of ferns and seed plants." American Journal of Botany 101 (2):338-347. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1300220
Stine, Jeffrey K. and Wing, Scott L. 2014. "The Living in the Anthropocene Film Series." Sustainability Matters 3 (2):1-2.
Wing, Scott L., Johnson, Kirk R., Peppe, Daniel J., Green, Walton A., and Taylor, David Winship. 2014. "The Multi-Stranded Career of Leo J. Hickey." Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 55 (2):69-78. https://doi.org/10.3374/014.055.0201
Baczynski, Allison A., McInerney, Francesca A., Wing, Scott L., Kraus, Mary J., Bloch, Jonathan I., Boyer, Doug M., Secord, Ross, Morse, Paul E., and Fricke, Henry C. 2013. "Chemostratigraphic implications of spatial variation in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum carbon isotope excursion, SE Bighorn Basin, Wyoming." Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 14 (10):4133-4152. https://doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20265
Clyde, W. C., Gingerich, P. D., Wing, Scott L., Röhl, U., Westerhold, T., Bowen, G., Johnson, Kirk R., Baczynski, A. A., Diefendorf, A., McInerney, F., Schnurrenberger, D., Noren, A., and Brady, K. 2013. "Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP): a continental perspective on early Paleogene hyperthermals." Scientific Drilling 16:21-31. https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-16-21-2013
Kraus, Mary J., McInerney, Francesca A., Wing, Scott L., Secord, Ross, Baczynski, Allison A., and Bloch, Jonathan I. 2013. "Paleohydrologic response to continental warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 370:196-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.12.008
Wing, Scott L. and Currano, Ellen D. 2013. "Plant response to a global greenhouse event 56 million years ago." American Journal of Botany 100 (9):1234-1254. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1200554
Clyde, W. C., Gingerich, P. D., and Wing, Scott L. 2012. "Coring Project in Bighorn Basin: Drilling Phase Complete." Eos 93 (4):41-42. https://doi.org/10.1029/2012EO040002
Diefendorf, Aaron F., Freeman, Katherine H., and Wing, Scott L. 2012. "Distribution and carbon isotope patterns of diterpenoids and triterpenoids in modern temperate C3 trees and their geochemical significance." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 85:342-356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.02.016
Price, Charles A., Wing, Scott L., and Weitz, Joshua S. 2012. "Scaling and structure of dicotyledonous leaf venation networks." Ecology Letters 15 (2):87-95. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01712.x
Secord, Ross, Bloch, Jonathan I., Chester, Stephen G. B., Boyer, Doug M., Wood, Aaron R., Wing, Scott L., Kraus, Mary J., McInerney, Francesca A., and Krigbaum, John. 2012. "Evolution of the Earliest Horses Driven by Climate Change in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum." Science 335 (6071):959-962. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1213859
Wing, Scott L., Stromberg, Caroline A. E., Hickey, Leo J., Tiver, Fleur, Willis, Brian, Burnham, Robyn J., and Behrensmeyer, Anna K. 2012. "Floral and environmental gradients on a Late Cretaceous landscape." Ecological Monographs 82 (1):23-47. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-0870.1
Adams, Jason S., Kraus, Mary J., and Wing, Scott L. 2011. "Evaluating the use of weathering indices for determining mean annual precipitation in the ancient stratigraphic record." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 309 (3-4):358-366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.07.004
Carvalho, Mónica R., Herrera, Fabiany, Jaramillo, Carlos A., Wing, Scott L., and Callejas, Ricardo. 2011. "Paleocene Malvaceae from northern South America and their biogeographical implications." American Journal of Botany 98 (8):1337-1355. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1000539
Diefendorf, Aaron F., Freeman, Katherine H., Wing, Scott L., and Graham, Heather V. 2011. "Production of n-alkyl lipids in living plants and implications for the geologic past." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75 (23):7472-7485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.09.028
Freeman, Katherine H., Mueller, Kevin E., Diefendorf, Aaron F., Wing, Scott L., and Koch, Paul L. 2011. "Clarifying the influence of water availability and plant types on carbon isotope discrimination by C3 plants." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108 (16):E59-E60. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102556108
Green, Walton A., Hunt, Gene, Wing, Scott L., and DiMichele, William A. 2011. "Does extinction wield an axe or pruning shears? How interactions between phylogeny and ecology affect patterns of extinction." Paleobiology 37 (1):72-91. https://doi.org/10.1666/09078.1
McInerney, Francesca A. and Wing, Scott L. 2011. "The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: a Perturbation of Carbon Cycle, Climate, and Biosphere with Implications for the Future." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 39:489-516.
Peppe, Daniel J., Royer, Dana L., Cariglino, Barbara, Oliver, Sofia Y., Newman, Sharon, Leight, Elias, Enikolopov, Grisha, Fernandez-Burgos, Margo, Herrera, Fabiany, Adams, Jonathan M., Correa, Edwin, Currano, Ellen D., Erickson, J. Mark, Felipe Hinojosa, Luis, Hoganson, John W., Iglesias, Ari, Jaramillo, Carlos A., Johnson, Kirk R., Jordan, Gregory J., Kraft, Nathan J. B., Lovelock, Elizabeth C., Lusk, Christopher H., Niinemets, Uelo, Penuelas, Josep, Rapson, Gillian et al. 2011. "Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications." New Phytologist 190 (3):724-739. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03615.x
Wing, Scott L. 2011. [Book review] "Deep Future The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth." Science. 825-825. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1209934
Wing, Scott L. 2011. "We Need a Deeper Sense of Time." Science 333 (6044):825. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1209934
Diefendorf, Aaron F., Mueller, Kevin E., Wing, Scott L., Koch, Paul L., and Freeman, Katherine H. 2010. "Global patterns in leaf C-13 discrimination and implications for studies of past and future climate." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107 (13):5738-5743. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910513107
Bennington, J. Bret, DiMichele, William A., Badgley, Catherine, Bambach, Richard K., Barrett, Paul M., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bobe, Rene, Burnham, Robyn J., Daeschler, Edward B., Van Dam, Jan, Eronen, Jussi T., Erwin, Douglas H., Finnegan, Seth, Holland, Steven M., Hunt, Gene, Jablonski, David, Jackson, Stephen T., Jacobs, Bonnie E., Kidwell, Susan M., Koch, Paul L., Kowalewski, Michal J., Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., Lyons, Sara K., Novack-Gottshall, Philip M. et al. 2009. "Critical Issues of Scale in Paleoecology." Palaios 24 (1-2):1-4. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.S01
Ellis, B., Daly, D. C., Hickey, Leo J., Johnson, Kirk R., Mitchell, J. D., Wilf, Peter, and Wing, Scott L. 2009. Manual of Leaf Architecture. Cornell University Press.
Gomez-Navarro, Carolina, Jaramillo, Carlos A., Herrera, Fabiany, Wing, Scott L., and Callejas, Ricardo. 2009. "Palms (Arecaceae) from a Paleocene rainforest of northern Colombia." American Journal of Botany 96 (7):1300-1312. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0800378
Wing, Scott L., Bloch, J. I., Bowen, G. J., Boyer, D. M., Chester, S., Diefendorf, Aaron F., Harrington, G. J., Kraus, M. J., Secord, R., and Smith, F. A. 2009. "Coordinated sedimentary and biotic change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA." in Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene (CBEP 2009), extended abstracts from an international conference in Wellington, New Zealand, 12-15 January 2009, edited by Crouch, E. M., Strong, C. P., and Hollis, C. J., 156-162. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences.
Wing, Scott L., Herrera, Fabiany, Jaramillo, Carlos A., Gómez-Navarro, Carolina, Wilf, Peter, and Labandeira, Conrad C. 2009. "Late Paleocene fossils from the Cerrejón Formation, Colombia, are the earliest record of Neotropical rainforest." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106 (44):18627-18632. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905130106
Currano, Ellen D., Wilf, Peter, Wing, Scott L., Labandeira, Conrad C., Lovelock, Elizabeth C., and Royer, Dana L. 2008. "Sharply increased insect herbivory during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105 (6):1960-1964. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0708646105
Herrera, Fabiany A., Jaramillo, Carlos A., Dilcher, David L., Wing, Scott L., and Gomez-N., Carolina. 2008. "Fossil Araceae from a Paleocene Neotropical rainforest in Colombia." American Journal of Botany 95 (12):1569-1583. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.0800172
Secord, Ross, Wing, Scott L., and Chew, Amy. 2008. "Stable isotopes in early Eocene mammals as indicators of forest canopy structure and resource partitioning." Paleobiology 34 (2):282-300. https://doi.org/10.1666/0094-8373(2008)034[0282:SIIEEM]2.0.CO
Wing, Scott L., Bloch, Johathan I., Bowen, Gabriel J., Boyer, Douglas M., Chester, Stephen, Diefendorf, Aaron F., Harrington, Guy J., Kraus, Mary J., Secord, Ross, and McInerney, Francesca A. 2008. "Coordinated Sedimentary and Biotic Change During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA." in Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene (CBEP 2009), extended abstracts from an international conference in Wellington, New Zealand, 12-15 January 2009, edited by Crouch, E. M., Strong, C. P., and Hollis, C. J., 157-163. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited.
Clyde, William C., Hamzi, Walid, Finarelli, John A., Wing, Scott L., Schankler, David, and Chew, Amy. 2007. "Basin-wide magnetostratigraphic framework for the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming." Geological Society of America Bulletin 119 (7/8):848-859. https://doi.org/10.1130/B26104.1
Smith, Francesca A., Wing, Scott L., and Freeman, Katherine H. 2007. "Magnitude of the carbon isotope excursion at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: The role of plant community change." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 262 (1-2):50-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.021
Bowen, Gabriel J., Bralower, Timothy J., Delaney, Margaret L., Dickens, Gerald R., Kelly, Daniel C., Koch, Paul L., Kump, Lee R., Meng, Jin, Sloan, Lisa C., Thomas, Ellen, Wing, Scott L., and Zachos, James C. 2006. "Eocene Hyperthermal Event Offers Insight Into Greenhouse Warming." Eos 87 (17):165-167. https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2006)80[801:POTPSM]2.0.CO
McMillan, M. E., Heller, P. L., and Wing, Scott L. 2006. "History and causes of post-Laramide relief in the Rocky Mountain orogenic plateau." Geological Society of America Bulletin 118 (3):393-405. https://doi.org/10.1130/B25712.1
Wing, Scott L. 2005. "Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary." Science 310 (5750):993-996.
Wing, Scott L. 2005. "A paleontological perspective on plant extinction." in Plant Conservation A Natural History Approach, edited by Krupnick, Gary A. and Kress, W. John., 43-53. University of Chicago Press.
Barnosky, Anthony D., Koch, Paul L., Feranec, Robert S., Wing, Scott L., and Shabel, Alan B. 2004. "Assessing the causes of Late Pleistocene extinctions on the continents." Science 306:70-75.
DiMichele, William A., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Olszewski, T. D., Labandeira, Conrad C., Pandolfi, John M., Wing, Scott L., and Bobe, Rene. 2004. "Long-term stasis in ecological assemblages: evidence from the fossil record." Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 35:285-322.
Fricke, H. and Wing, Scott L. 2004. "Oxygen isotope and paleobotanical estimates of temperature and A'18O latitudinal gradients over North America during the early Eocene." American Journal of Science 304:612-635.
Greenwood, D. R., Wilf, Peter, Wing, Scott L., and Christophel, D. C. 2004. "Paleotemperature Estimation Using Leaf-Margin Analysis: Is Australia Different?." Palaios 19:129-142.
Wing, Scott L. 2004. "Mass Extinctions in Plant Evolution." in Extinctions in the History of Life, edited by Taylor, Paul D., 61-97. Cambridge University Press.
Koch, P. L., Clyde, W. C., Heppel, R. P., Fogel, Marilyn L., Wing, Scott L., and Zachos, J. C. 2003. "Isotopic records of carbon cycle and climate change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming." Special Papers / Geological Society of America 369:49-64.
Royer, Dana L., Hickey, Leo J., and Wing, Scott L. 2003. "Ecological conservatism in the "living fossil" Ginkgo." Paleobiology 29 (1):84-104.
Wilf, Peter, Cúneo, N. Rubén, Johnson, Kirk R., Hicks, Jason F., Wing, Scott L., and Obradovich, John D. 2003. "High plant diversity in Eocene South America: evidence from Patagonia." Science 300 (5616):122-125. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1080475
Wing, Scott L., Harrington, Guy J., Bowen, G. J., and Koch, P. L. 2003. "Floral change during the Initial Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming." Special Papers / Geological Society of America 369:425-440.
Royer, D. L., Wing, Scott L., Beerling, D. J., Jolley, D. W., Koch, P. L., Hickey, Leo J., and Berner, R. A. 2001. "Paleobotanical evidence for near present-day levels of atmospheric CO2 during part of the tertiary." Science 292 (5525):2310-2313.
Wing, Scott L. 2001. "Hot times in the Bighorn Basin." Natural History 110 (3):48-54.
Wing, Scott L. and Harrington, G. J. 2001. "Floral response to rapid warming in the earliest Eocene and implications for concurrent faunal change." Paleobiology 27 (3):539-563.
Huber, Brian T., MacLeod, Kenneth G., and Wing, Scott L. , eds. 2000. Warm Climates in Earth History. Cambridge University Press.
Sewall, J. O., Sloan, L. C., Huber, M., and Wing, Scott L. 2000. "Climate sensitivity to changes in land surface characteristics." Global and Planetary Change 26 (4):445-465.
Wing, Scott L. 2000. "Evolution and Expansion of Flowering Plants." Paleontological Society Papers 6:209-232.
Wing, Scott L. 2000. "Cool, warm, cool, warm - climate oscillation and floral change during the Paleocene." Gff 122:182-183.
Wilf, Peter, Wing, Scott L., Greenwood, D. R., and Greenwood, C. L. 1999. "Using fossil leaves as paleoprecipitation indicators: An Eocene example: Reply." Geology 27 (1):92-92.
Davies-Vollum, K. S. and Wing, Scott L. 1998. "Sedimentological, taphonomic, and climatic aspects of Eocene swamp deposits (Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming)." Palaios 13 (1):28-40.
Manchester, S. R., Dilcher, D. L., and Wing, Scott L. 1998. "Attached leaves and fruits of myrtaceous affinity from the middle Eocene of Colorado." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 102 (3-4):153-163.
Wilf, Peter, Wing, Scott L., Greenwood, D. R., and Greenwood, C. L. 1998. "Using fossil leaves as paleoprecipitation indicators: An Eocene example." Geology 26 (3):203-206.
Wing, Scott L. 1998. "Tertiary Vegetation of North America as a Context for Mammalian Evolution." in Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America, Volume 1: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulatelike Mammals, edited by Janis, Christine M., Scott, Kathleen M., and Jacobs, Louis L., 37-60. Cambridge University Press.
Wing, Scott L. 1998. "Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Floral and Climatic Change in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming." in Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Biotic and Climatic Events, edited by Berggren, William, Aubrey, M. P., and Lucas, S., 371-391. Columbia University Press.
Wing, Scott L. and Boucher, L. D. 1998. "Ecological aspects of the Cretaceous flowering plant radiation." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 26:379-421.
Damuth, J., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., DiMichele, William A., Labandeira, Conrad C., Potts, Richard, and Wing, Scott L. 1997. ETE Database Manual. Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium.
Wing, Scott L. 1997. "Global Warming and Plant Species Richness: a Case Study of the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary." in Biodiversity II : Understanding and Protecting our Biological Resources, edited by Reaka-Kudla, Marjorie L., Wilson, Don E., and Wilson, Edward O., 163-185. Joseph Henry Press.
Wing, Scott L. 1996. "Global Warming and Plane Species Richness—a Case Study of the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary." in Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting our Natural Resources, edited by Wilson, E. O., Wilson, Don E., and Reaka-Kudla, M. L., 163-185. National Academy Press.
Wing, Scott L. 1996. "The Republic Highlands." Washington Geology 24 (2):40.
Wing, Scott L. and Greenwood, D. 1996. "Eocene continental climates and latitudinal temperature gradients: Reply." Geology 24 (11):1054-1055.
Greenwood, D. R. and Wing, Scott L. 1995. "Eocene Continental Climates and Latitudinal Temperature-Gradients." Geology 23 (11):1044-1048.
Wing, Scott L., Alroy, J., and Hickey, Leo J. 1995. "Plant and Mammal Diversity in the Paleocene to Early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin." Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology 115 (1-4):117-155.
Wing, Scott L. and DiMichele, William A. 1995. "Conflict between local and global changes in plant diversity through geological time." Palaios 10:551-564.
Greenwood, D. R., Wing, Scott L., and Behrensmeyer, Anna K. 1993. "Determining Paleoclimates." Science 260 (5106):278-279.
Wing, Scott L. and Greenwood, D. R. 1993. "Fossils and Fossil Climate - the Case for Equable Continental Interiors in the Eocene." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 341 (1297):243-252.
Wing, Scott L., Hickey, Leo J., and Swisher, C. C. 1993. "Implications of an Exceptional Fossil Flora for Late Cretaceous Vegetation." Nature 363 (6427):342-344.
Wing, Scott L. and Wolfe, J. A. 1993. "Stable-Isotope Study of Fluid Inclusions in Fluorite from Idaho - Implications for Continental Climates during the Eocene - Comment." Geology 21 (11):1051-1051.
Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Damuth, J., DiMichele, William A., Potts, Richard, Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Wing, Scott L. , eds. 1992. Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time. University of Chicago.
Burnham, Robyn, Wing, Scott L., and Parker, Geoffrey G. 1992. "Reflection of deciduous forest communities in leaf litter: Implications for autochthonous litter assemblages from the fossil record." Paleobiology 18 (1):30-49.
Wing, Scott L. 1992. "High-Resolution Leaf X-Radiography in Systematics and Paleobotany." American Journal of Botany 79 (11):1320-1324.
Wing, Scott L. and Sues, Hans-Dieter. 1992. "Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems." in Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time : Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals, edited by Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Damuth, John D., DiMichele, William A., Potts, Richard, Sues, Hans-Dieter, and Wing, Scott L., 327-416. University of Chicago Press.
Wing, Scott L., Sues, Hans-Dieter, Potts, Richard, DiMichele, William A., and Behrensmeyer, Anna K. 1992. "Evolutionary Paleoecology." in Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals, edited by Behrensmeyer, Anna K., 1-13. University of Chicago Press.
Archibald, J. D. and Wing, Scott L. 1991. "Equable Climates during Earth History - Comment." Geology 19 (5):539-540.
Wing, Scott L., Bown, T. M., and Obradovich, J. D. 1991. "Early Eocene Biotic and Climatic-Change in Interior Western North-America." Geology 19 (12):1189-1192.
McCartan, L., Tiffney, B. H., Wolfe, J. A., Ager, Thomas A., Wing, Scott L., Sirkin, L. A., Ward, L. W., and Brooks, J. 1990. "Late Tertiary Floral Assemblage from Upland Gravel Deposits of the Southern Maryland Coastal-Plain." Geology 18 (4):311-314.
Wing, Scott L. 1987. "Interactions of Angiosperms and Herbivorous Tetrapods through Time." in The Origins of Angiosperms and their Biological Consequences, edited by Friis, E. M., Chaloner, W. G., and Crane, P. R., 203-224. Cambridge University Press.
Wing, Scott L. 1987. "Eocene and Oligocene Floras and Vegetation of the Rocky Mountains." Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74 (4):748-784.
Wing, Scott L. and Tiffney, B. H. 1987. "The Reciprocal Interaction of Angiosperm Evolution and Tetrapod Herbivory." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 50 (1-2):179-210.
Brunet, M., Coppens, Y., Pilbeam, D., Djallo, S., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Brillanceau, A., Downs, W., Duperon, M., Ekodeck, G., Flynn, L., Heintz, E., Hell, J., Jehenne, Y., Martin, L., Mosser, C., Salardcheboldaeff, M., Wenz, S., and Wing, Scott L. 1986. "Cenozoic and Cretaceous Fresh-Water Deposits in Cameroon - Preliminary-Results of a Paleontological Prospection." Comptes Rendus De L Academie Des Sciences Serie Ii 303 (5):425-428.
Wing, Scott L. and Bown, T. M. 1985. "Fine Scale Reconstruction of the Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Paleogeography in the Bighorn Basin of Northern Wyoming." in Cenozoic Paleogeography of the West Central United States, Rocky Mountain Symposium, edited by Flores, R. M. and Kaplan, S., 93-105. Rocky Mountain Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists.
Wing, Scott L. 1984. "Relation of Paleovegetation to Geometry and Cyclicity of some Fluvial Carbonaceous Deposits." Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 54 (1):52-66.
Wing, Scott L. 1984. "Impressions of Fallen Leaves." Earth Science 37 (4):16-17.
Wing, Scott L. 1984. "A New Basis for Recognizing the Paleocene Eocene Boundary in Western Interior North-America." Science 226 (4673):439-441.
Wing, Scott L. 1984. "Review of "Catastrophes and Earth History"." Earth Sciences History 3 (2):190-191.
Wing, Scott L. and Hickey, Leo J. 1984. "The Platycarya Perplex and the Evolution of the Juglandaceae." American Journal of Botany 71 (3):388-411.

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