Earth and Life Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time /
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 whic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2012.
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| Series: | International Year of Planet Earth
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | XXXII, 1107 p. 620 illus., 429 illus. in color. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789048134281 |
