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  title info:
    title: Earth and Life
    sub title: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time
  name:
    name part: Talent, John A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXII, 1107 p. 620 illus., 429 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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 r…
  note: edited by John A. Talent.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Physical geography
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geology
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Geoecology/Natural Processes
  subject:
    topic: Physical Geography
  classification: QH343.4
  classification: 550
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: International Year of Planet Earth
  identifier: 9789048134281
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3428-1
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    record creation date: 120627
    record change date: 20151125191518.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-3428-1