Biodiversity and Evolutionary Ecology of Extinct Organisms
Biodiversity and Evolutionary Ecology of Extinct Organisms

Author: Rituparna Bose

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-08-11

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 3642317219

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Increasing rate of species extinction in the present day will lead to a huge biodiversity crisis; eventually, this will lead to the paucity of non-renewable resources of energy making our Earth unsustainable in future. To save our mother planet from this crisis, studies need to be performed to discover abundant new fossil sites on Earth for continued access to oil-rich locations. Most importantly, a holistic approach is necessary in solving the present problem of biodiversity loss. This book presents newly developed quantitative models in understanding the biodiversity, evolution and ecology of extinct organisms. This will assist future earth scientists in understanding the natural and anthropogenic causes behind biodiversity crisis and ecosystem collapse. In addition, this study would be of great interest to exploration geologists and geophysicists in potentially unraveling natural resources from our sustainable Earth.

Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods
Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods

Author: Rituparna Bose

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 3319001949

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Fossil species appear to persist morphologically unchanged for long intervals of geologic time, punctuated by short bursts of rapid change as explained by the Ecological Evolutionary Units (EEUs). Here, morphological variation in Paleozoic atrypide morphology at the subfamily level (Atrypinae and Variatrypinae) from the Silurian and Devonian time intervals in the third Paleozoic EEU (~444-359 my) were investigated using relatively new techniques of quantitative modeling. The study explains how a group of closely related taxa in atrypide subfamilies exhibit morphological conservation through time in P3 EEU within the Eastern North America region.

Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps
Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps

Author: Andrzej Kaim

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 691

ISBN-13: 303105623X

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This volume details the function of hydrocarbon seeps, their evolution over time, the most important seep occurrences and the fauna present in ancient hydrocarbon seeps. While several publications exist that cover modern seeps and vents, fossil seeps only constitute a small component of the literature. As such, many geologists, stratigraphers and paleontologists, as well as undergraduates and graduate students, are not very familiar with ancient hydrocarbon seep deposits and their associated fauna. This text is the first to comprehensively discuss the nature of such animal groups and how to recognize them. In addition to summarizing available knowledge on these topics for specialists in the field, this book offers the background needed to be of use to students as well as the wider community of geologists and paleontologists.