UID:
almafu_9958131485802883
Format:
1 online resource (314 p.)
ISBN:
1-299-36401-2
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0-323-15641-X
Content:
Biotic Crises in Ecological and Evolutionary Time
Note:
"Proceedings of the third annual Spring Systematics Symposium: Biotic Crises in Ecological and Evolutionary Time, held at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, May 10, 1980, sponsored by the Field Museum of Natural History and the National Science Foundation.
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Front Cover; Copyright Page; Biotic Crises in Ecological and Evolutionary Time; Table of Contents; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS A CRISIS?; INTRODUCTION; PURPOSE OF THE PRESENT VOLUME; DEFINITION OF CRISIS; THRESHOLD CRISES VERSUS POINT CRISES; PROBLEMS OF SCALE; STATISTICS OF RARE EVENTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. THE ASTROPHYSICAL FRAMEWORK OF LIFE; INTRODUCTION; THE FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE UNIVERSE; THE COSMOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK; THE PAST HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE; THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE AND SOLAR SYSTEM
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EXTRATERRESTRIAL DISTURBANCES THAT CAN LEAD TO MAJOR BIOTIC CRISESTHE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSE; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER 3. PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE IN THE LIFE OF PLANTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 4. COMMUNITY EFFECTS OF INTRODUCED SPECIES; INTRODUCTION; THE DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; LIMITING SIMILARITY; RESULTS; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. THE PRE-PHANEROZOIC BIOSPHERE - THREE BILLION YEARS OF CRISES AND OPPORTUNITIES; INTRODUCTION; GEOLOGIC TIME TERMS; THE EARLY CRISES AND OPPORTUNITIES; THE OLDEST RECORDS OF LIFE; THE PROTEROZOIC RADIATION; AN EARLY PROTEROZOIC CRISIS
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MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC RADIATIONSLATE PROTEROZOIC CRISIS; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 6. CLIMATIC OSCILLATIONS IN THE BIOSPHERE; INTRODUCTION; A LOOK AT THE CRETACEOUS WORLD; THE TWO PHANEROZOIC SUPERCYCLES; MANTLE, PLATES, AND CARBON DIOXIDE; THE 30 m.y. CYCLE; ORBITAL CYCLES; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7. THE GREAT AMERICAN INTERCHANGE - AN INVASION INDUCED CRISIS FOR SOUTH AMERICAN MAMMALS; INTRODUCTION; SOUTH AMERICAN LAND MAMMAL HISTORY; PRINCIPLES OF FAUNAL DYNAMICS; GENERAL ASPECTS OF TAXONOMIC EVOLUTION
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SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF TAXONOMIC EVOLUTIONSUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8. LIVING WITH CRISES: HUMAN PERCEPTION OF PROCESS AND TIME; TECTONIC SETTING; CLIMATIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SETTING; LANDSCAPE ALTERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; CHRONOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS; POTENTIALS OF MAN'S PAST; THE GALINDO EXAMPLE; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9. LISTENING TO A SYMPOSIUM - A SUMMARY AND PROSPECTUS; INTRODUCTION; THE MEANINGS OF ""CRISIS""; INTELLECTUAL ""CRISIS""; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-519640-7
Language:
English
