Biotic Response to Global Change The Last 145 Million Years

Name: Biotic Response to Global Change The Last 145 Million Years
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ISBN: 9780521034197

ISBN-10: 0521034191

ISBN-13: 9780521034197

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Authors: Stephen J. Culver, Peter F. Rawson

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From Cretaceous times to the present, the Earth's climate changed from a very warm, "greenhouse" phase with no ice sheets to the "ice-house" world of today. In this book over forty specialists investigate the many ways that life has reacted to the global environmental changes that have taken place during this period. Coverage details a wide spectrum of animal, plant, and protistan life, with the focus on aspects such as extinctions, diversity, and biogeography. This volume will be an invaluable reference for researchers and graduate students in paleontology, geology, biology, oceanography and climatology.

Book details

List price: $63.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 516
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.72" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English



List of contributors


Preface



Introduction




The Cretaceous world




The Cenozoic world




Calcareous nannoplankton and global climate change




Phenotypic response of foraminifera to episodes of global environmental change




The response of planktonic formanifera to the Late Pliocene intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation




The response of Cretaceous cephalopods to global change




Global change and the fossil fish record: the relevance of systematics




Response of shallow water foraminiferal paleocommunities to global and regional environmental change




Intrinsic and extrinsic controls on the diversification of the Bivalvia




Global events and biotic interaction as controls on the evolution of gastropods




Algal symbiosis, and the collapse and recovery of reef communities: Lazarus corals across the K-T boundary




Changes in the diversity, taxic composition and life-history patterns of echinoids over the past 145 million years




Origin of the modern bryozoan fauna




Angiosperm diversification and Cretaceous environmental change




Cenozoic evolution of modern plant communities and vegetation




Leaf physiognomy and climate change




Biotic response to Late Quaternary global change - the pollen record: a case study from the Upper Thames Valley, England




The Cretaceous and Cenozoic record of insects (Hexapoda) with regard to global change




The palaeoclimatological significance of Late Cenozoic Coleoptera: familiar species in very unfamiliar circumstances




Amphibians, reptiles and birds: a biogeographical review




Paleogene mammals: crises and ecological change




Response of Old World terrestrial vertebrate biotas to Neogene climate change




Mammalian response to global change in the later Quaternary of the British Isles




Human evolution: how an African primate became global




The biotic response to global change: a summary



References


Index