Middle Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biogeography, Palaeogeography and Climate (IGCP Project 491)
Author: Min Zhu
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Published: 2010
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Author: Min Zhu
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Published: 2010
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Grosa Simpozijs Paleoihtioloģijas Sasniegumi. 2, 2003, Rīga
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 59
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: D.A.T. Harper
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2014-01-27
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 1862393737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Early Palaeozoic was a critical interval in the evolution of marine life on our planet. Through a window of some 120 million years, the Cambrian Explosion, Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, End Ordovician Extinction and the subsequent Silurian Recovery established a steep trajectory of increasing marine biodiversity that started in the Late Proterozoic and continued into the Devonian. Biogeography is a key property of virtually all organisms; their distributional ranges, mapped out on a mosaic of changing palaeogeography, have played important roles in modulating the diversity and evolution of marine life. This Memoir first introduces the content, some of the concepts involved in describing and interpreting palaeobiogeography, and the changing Early Palaeozoic geography is illustrated through a series of time slices. The subsequent 26 chapters, compiled by some 130 authors from over 20 countries, describe and analyse distributional and in many cases diversity data for all the major biotic groups plotted on current palaeogeographic maps. Nearly a quarter of a century after the publication of the ‘Green Book’ (Geological Society, London, Memoir12, edited by McKerrow and Scotese), improved stratigraphic and taxonomic data together with more accurate, digitized palaeogeographic maps, have confirmed the central role of palaeobiogeography in understanding the evolution of Early Palaeozoic ecosystems and their biotas.
Author: John A. Talent
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-06-28
Total Pages: 1104
ISBN-13: 9048134285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marco Vecoli
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781862393097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe invasion of the land by plants (terrestrialization) was one of the most significant evolutionary events in the history of life on Earth, and correlates in time with periods of major palaeoenvironmental perturbations. The development of a vegetation cover on the previously barren land surfaces impacted on the global biogeochemical cycles and the geological processes of erosion and sediment transport. The terrestrialization of plants preceded the rise of major new groups of animals, such as insects and tetrapods, the latter numbering some 24 000 living species, including ourselves. Early land-plant evolution also correlates with the most spectacular decline of atmospheric CO2 concentration of Phanerozoic times and with the onset of a protracted period of glacial conditions on Earth. This book includes a selection of papers covering different aspects of the terrestrialization, from palaeobotany to vertebrate palaeontology and geochemistry, promoting a multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of the co-evolution of life and its environments during Early to Mid-Palaeozoic times.
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2012-02-07
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9230010367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Liz Reed
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 504
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dansk geologisk forening
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 194
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