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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Talent, John A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Σειρά: International Year of Planet Earth
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Geobiology.; Physical geography.; Biodiversity.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Physical Geography.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: XXXII, 1107 p. 620 illus., 429 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789048134281

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.