Earth and Life : Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Talent, John A. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Colección:International Year of Planet Earth
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505 0 |a Phanerozoic marine biodiversity: a fresh look at data, methods, patterns and processes -- Coordinated stasis reconsidered: a perspective after fifteen years -- Whilst this planet has gone cycling on: what role for periodic astronomical phenomena in large-scale patterns in the history of life? -- Climate change through time -- Development of intertidal biotas through Phanerozoic time -- Marine sclerobiofacies: encrusting and endolithic communities on shells through time and space -- Brachiopods and their auloporid epibionts in the Devonian of Boulonnais (France) -- Fossil fish taphonomy and the contribution of microfossils to documenting Devonian vertebrate history -- The Messel Pit fossil site ? the legacy of the environment and life of the Eocene -- Evolutionary scenario of the early history of the Animal Kingdom: evidence from Precambrian (Ediacaran) Weng’an and Early Cambrian Maotianshan biotas, China -- The Ordovician Radiation: macroevolutionary crossroads of the Phanerozoic -- Phylogeny of Palaeozoic gastropods inferred from their ontogeny -- Palaeozoic innovations in the micro- and megafossil plant record: from the earliest plant spores to the earliest seeds -- Tentaculitids ? an enigmatic group of Palaeozoic fossils -- Palaeozoic ammonoids ? diversity and development of conch morphology -- Quantitative approach to diversity and decline in Late Palaeozoic trilobites -- Devonian cladid crinoid evolution, diversity, and first and last occurrences: summary observations -- Palaeoecology, aerodynamics and the origins of avian flight -- The Ireviken Event in the Boree Creek Formation, New South Wales, Australia -- Isotope geochemistry and plankton response to the Ireviken (earliest Wenlock) and Cyrtograptus lundgreni events, Cape Phillips Formation, Arctic Canada -- Late Ludfordian (Silurian) correlations and the Lau Global Extinction Event -- The late Middle Devonian (Givetian) global Taghanic Biocrisis in its type area (northern Appalachian Basin): geologically rapid faunal transitions driven by global and local environmental changes -- The Permian ? a time of major evolutions and revolutions in the history of life -- Millennial physical events and the end-Permian mass mortality in the western Palaeo-Tethys: timing and primary causes -- Chicxulub Impact, Deccan Traps and the K-T mass extinction -- After mass extinction but no recovery: new tales of ‘Dead Clade Walking’ from Austral and Boreal post-K-Pg (Danian) assemblages -- Fungi, a driving force in normalization of the terrestrial carbon cycle following the end-Cretaceous extinction -- Changes in the pattern of brachiopod biogeography in northern Asia through Early and Middle Devonian times -- The paleogeography of Pennsylvanian crinoids and blastoids -- Biogeography of Jurassic and Early Cretaceous ostracods from Western Australia and what they reveal about the evolution of the Indian Ocean -- Cretaceous continental bridges, insularity, and vicariance in the southern hemisphere: which route did dinosaurs take? -- Palaeobiogeography of Mesozoic mammals?revisited -- Cenozoic environmental shifts -- Miocene asteroid impacts: proposed effects on the biogeography and extinction patterns of eastern North American gastropods -- The rise of Australian marsupials: a synopsis of biostratigraphic, phylogenetic, palaeoecologic and palaeobiogeographic understanding -- A Perspective.-. 
650 0 |a Geobiology. 
650 0 |a Biodiversity. 
650 0 |a Geoecology. 
650 0 |a Environmental geology. 
650 0 |a Physical geography. 
650 1 4 |a Biogeosciences. 
650 2 4 |a Biodiversity. 
650 2 4 |a Geoecology/Natural Processes. 
650 2 4 |a Physical Geography. 
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