UID:
edocfu_9959240406202883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 501 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-107-11870-0
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1-280-42102-9
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9786610421022
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0-511-17246-X
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0-511-04910-2
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0-511-15124-1
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0-511-53550-3
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0-511-31054-4
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0-511-04068-7
Content:
Concern about the effects of global change on our planet's future has driven much research into the last few thousand years of earth history. In contrast, this volume takes a much longer viewpoint to provide a historical perspective to recent and future global change. Over 40 international specialists investigate the reaction of life to global environmental changes, from Cretaceous times to the turn of the century. During this time earth's climate has changed from a very warm, 'greenhouse' phase with no significant ice sheets to today's 'ice-house' world. A wide spectrum of animal, plant and protistan life is discussed, encompassing terrestrial, shallow-marine and deep-marine realms. Each chapter considers a particular taxonomic group, looking first at the general picture and then focusing on more specialized aspects such as extinctions, diversity and biogeography. This volume will form an invaluable reference for researchers and graduate students in paleontology, geology, biology, oceanography and climatology.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Introduction / Stephen J. Culver and Peter F. Rawson -- 2. The Cretaceous world / Andrew S. Gale -- 3. The Cenozoic world / Kevin T. Pickering -- 4. Calcareous nannoplankton and global climate change / Jackie A. Burnett, Jeremy R. Young and Paul R. Bown -- 5. Phenotypic Response of Foraminifera to episodes of global environmental change / Norman Macleod [and others] -- 6. The response of planktonic formanifera to the late Pliocene intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation / Mark R. Chapman -- 7. The response of Cretaceous cephalopods to global change / Peter F. Rawson -- 8. Global change and the fossil fish record : the relevance of systematics / Peter Forey -- 9. Response of shallow water foraminiferal paleocommunities to global and regional environmental change / Stephen J. Culver and Martin A. Buzas -- 10. Intrinsic and extrinsic controls on the diversification of the Bivalvia / J. Alistair Crame -- 11. Global events and biotic interaction as controls on the evolution of gastropods / Noel Morris and John Taylor -- 12. Algal symbiosis and the collapse and recovery of reef communities : Lazarus corals across the K-T boundary / Brian R. Rosen -- 13. Changes in the diversity, taxic composition and life-history patterns of echinoids over the past 145 million years / Andrew B. Smith and Charlotte H. Jeffrey -- 14. Origin of the modern Bryozoan fauna / Paul D. Taylor -- 15. Angiosperm diversification and Cretaceous environmental change / Richard Lupia, Peter R. Crane and Scott Lidgard -- 16. Cenozoic evolution of modern plant communities and vegetation / Margaret E. Collinson -- 17. Leaf physiognomy and climate change / Robert A. Spicer -- 18. Biotic response to late Quaternary global change -- the pollen record : a case study from the Upper Thames Valley, England / Adrian G. Parker -- 19. The Cretaceous and Cenozoic record of insects (Hexapods) with regard to global change / Andrew J. Ross, Ed A. Jarzembowski and Stephen J. Brooks -- 20. The palaeoclimatological significance of Late Cenozoic Coloeoptera : familiar species in very unfamiliar circumstances / G. Russell Coope -- 21. Amphibians, reptiles and birds : a biogeographical review / Angela C. Milner, Andrew R. Milner and Susan E. Evans -- 22. Paleogene mammals : crises and ecological change Jeremy J. Hooker -- 23. Response of Old World terrestrial vertebrate biotas to neogene climate change / Peter J. Whybrow and Peter Andrews -- 24. Mammalian response to global change in the later quaternary of the British Isles / Andrew Currant -- 25. Human evolution : how an African primate became global / Chris Stringer -- 26. The biotic responses to global change : a summary / Stephen J. Culver and Peter F. Rawson.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-03419-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-66304-0
Language:
English
