| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 191 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Extinction and the fossil record / Paul D. Taylor -- Extinctions in life's earliest history / J. William Schopf -- Mass extinctions in plant evolution / Scott L. Wing -- The beginning of the Mesozoic: 70 million years of environmental stress and extinction / David J. Bottjer -- Causes of mass extinctions / Paul D. Wignall -- The evolutionary role of mass extinctions: disaster, recovery and something in-between / David Jablonski. |
| Summary |
"Key aspects of extinctions in the history of life are here reviewed by six leading paleontologists, providing a source text for geology and biology undergraduates as well as more advanced scholars. Topical issues are dealt with such as the causes of mass extinctions and how animal and plant life have recovered from these cataclysmic events that have shaped biological evolution. This helps us to view the current biodiversity crisis in a broader context, and shows how large-scale extinctions have had profound and long-lasting effects on the Earth's biosphere."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Extinction (Biology)
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Extinction (Biology) |
| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Taylor, Paul D.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Extinctions in the history of life. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 0521842247 (DLC) 2004045178 (OCoLC)54529268 |
| ISBN |
9780511338342 (electronic book) |
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0511338341 (electronic book) |
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9780511252822 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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051125282X (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511254277 (electronic book ; Mobipocket Reader) |
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051125427X (electronic book ; Mobipocket Reader) |
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0511337248 |
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9780511337246 |
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9780511607370 (ebook) |
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0511607377 (ebook) |
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1281112925 |
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9781281112927 |
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0521842247 |
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9780521842242 |
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