Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time
John A. Talent
This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization. Intense scrutiny is devoted to the pattern of physical (including isotopic), sedimentary and biotic circumstances through the time intervals during which life crises occurred. These events affected terrestrial, lacustrine and estuarine ecosystems, locally and globally, but have affected continental shelf ecosystems and even deep ocean ecosystems. The pattern of these events is the backdrop against which modelling the pattern of future environmental change needs to be evaluated.
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Año:
2012
Edición:
2012
Editorial:
Springer
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
1139
ISBN 10:
9048134277
ISBN 13:
9789048134274
Serie:
International Year of Planet Earth
Archivo:
PDF, 76.75 MB
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english, 2012