Effects of past global change on life
What can we expect as global change progresses? Will there be thresholds that trigger sudden shifts in environmental conditions--or that cause catastrophic destruction of life? Effects of Past Global Change on Life explores what earth scientists are learning about the impact of large-scale environme...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C.
National Academy Press
1995, 1995
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| Series: | Studies in geophysics
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Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Oxygen and Proterozoic evolution : an update / Andrew H. Knoll and Heinrich D. Holland
- Impact of late Ordovician glaciation-deglaciation on marine life / W.B.N. Berry, M.S. Quinby-Hunt, and P. Wilde
- Global change leading to biodiversity crisis in a greenhouse world : the Cenomanian-Turonian (Cretaceous) mass extinction / Earle G. Kauffman
- Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) mass extinction : effect of global change on Calcareous microplankton / Gerta Keller and Katharina v. Salis Perch-Nielsen
- Terminal Paleocene mass extinction in the deep sea : association with global warming / James P. Kennett and Lowell D. Stott
- Tropical climate stability and implications for the distribution of life / Eric J. Barron
- Neogene ice age in the North Atlantic region : climatic changes, biotic effects, and forcing factors / Steven M. Stanley and William F. Ruddiman
- The response of hierarchically structured ecosystems to long-term climatic change : a case study using tropical peat swamps of Pennsylvanian age / William A. DiMichele and Tom L. Phillips
- The late Cretaceous and Cenozoic history of vegetation and climate at northern and southern high latitudes : a comparison / Rosemary A. Askin and Robert A. Spicer
- The impact of climatic changes on the development of the Australian flora / David C. Christophel
- Global climatic influence on Cenozoic land mammal faunas / S. David Webb and Neil D. Opdyke
- Biotic responses to temperature and salinity changes during last deglaciation, Gulf of Mexico / Benjamin P. Flower and James P. Kennett
- Pollen records of late Quaternary vegetation change : plant community rearrangements and evolutionary implications / Thompson Webb III
- Climatic forcing and the origin of the human genus / Steven M. Stanley