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Biotic response to global change : the last 145 million years / edited by Stephen J. Culver and Peter F. Rawson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 501 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511040687
  • 9780511040689
  • 9780511535505
  • 0511535503
Other title:
  • Biotic response
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Biotic response to global change.DDC classification:
  • 577.2/2 22
LOC classification:
  • QC884 .B52 2000eb
Other classification:
  • P53-05
  • Q91-05
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction / Stephen J. Culver and Peter F. Rawson -- 2. The Cretaceous world / Andrew S. Gale -- 3. The Cenozoic world / Kevin T. Pickering -- 4. Calcareous nannoplankton and global climate change / Jackie A. Burnett, Jeremy R. Young and Paul R. Bown -- 5. Phenotypic Response of Foraminifera to episodes of global environmental change / Norman Macleod [and others] -- 6. The response of planktonic formanifera to the late Pliocene intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation / Mark R. Chapman -- 7. The response of Cretaceous cephalopods to global change / Peter F. Rawson -- 8. Global change and the fossil fish record : the relevance of systematics / Peter Forey -- 9. Response of shallow water foraminiferal paleocommunities to global and regional environmental change / Stephen J. Culver and Martin A. Buzas -- 10. Intrinsic and extrinsic controls on the diversification of the Bivalvia / J. Alistair Crame -- 11. Global events and biotic interaction as controls on the evolution of gastropods / Noel Morris and John Taylor -- 12. Algal symbiosis and the collapse and recovery of reef communities : Lazarus corals across the K-T boundary / Brian R. Rosen -- 13. Changes in the diversity, taxic composition and life-history patterns of echinoids over the past 145 million years / Andrew B. Smith and Charlotte H. Jeffrey -- 14. Origin of the modern Bryozoan fauna / Paul D. Taylor -- 15. Angiosperm diversification and Cretaceous environmental change / Richard Lupia, Peter R. Crane and Scott Lidgard -- 16. Cenozoic evolution of modern plant communities and vegetation / Margaret E. Collinson -- 17. Leaf physiognomy and climate change / Robert A. Spicer -- 18. Biotic response to late Quaternary global change -- the pollen record : a case study from the Upper Thames Valley, England / Adrian G. Parker -- 19. The Cretaceous and Cenozoic record of insects (Hexapods) with regard to global change / Andrew J. Ross, Ed A. Jarzembowski and Stephen J. Brooks -- 20. The palaeoclimatological significance of Late Cenozoic Coloeoptera : familiar species in very unfamiliar circumstances / G. Russell Coope -- 21. Amphibians, reptiles and birds : a biogeographical review / Angela C. Milner, Andrew R. Milner and Susan E. Evans -- 22. Paleogene mammals : crises and ecological change Jeremy J. Hooker -- 23. Response of Old World terrestrial vertebrate biotas to neogene climate change / Peter J. Whybrow and Peter Andrews -- 24. Mammalian response to global change in the later quaternary of the British Isles / Andrew Currant -- 25. Human evolution : how an African primate became global / Chris Stringer -- 26. The biotic responses to global change : a summary / Stephen J. Culver and Peter F. Rawson.
Summary: Includes information on Asia, Australia, Britain, climate change, corals, environmental change, Europe, faunal turnovers, Flandrian environmental history, glaciation, human evolution, land bridges, mammals, North America, oceanic circulation, plant record, pollen records, reef communities, rifting, sea levels, species diversity/richness, Tibetan Plateau, terrestrial vertebrates, etc.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-473) and index.

1. Introduction / Stephen J. Culver and Peter F. Rawson -- 2. The Cretaceous world / Andrew S. Gale -- 3. The Cenozoic world / Kevin T. Pickering -- 4. Calcareous nannoplankton and global climate change / Jackie A. Burnett, Jeremy R. Young and Paul R. Bown -- 5. Phenotypic Response of Foraminifera to episodes of global environmental change / Norman Macleod [and others] -- 6. The response of planktonic formanifera to the late Pliocene intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation / Mark R. Chapman -- 7. The response of Cretaceous cephalopods to global change / Peter F. Rawson -- 8. Global change and the fossil fish record : the relevance of systematics / Peter Forey -- 9. Response of shallow water foraminiferal paleocommunities to global and regional environmental change / Stephen J. Culver and Martin A. Buzas -- 10. Intrinsic and extrinsic controls on the diversification of the Bivalvia / J. Alistair Crame -- 11. Global events and biotic interaction as controls on the evolution of gastropods / Noel Morris and John Taylor -- 12. Algal symbiosis and the collapse and recovery of reef communities : Lazarus corals across the K-T boundary / Brian R. Rosen -- 13. Changes in the diversity, taxic composition and life-history patterns of echinoids over the past 145 million years / Andrew B. Smith and Charlotte H. Jeffrey -- 14. Origin of the modern Bryozoan fauna / Paul D. Taylor -- 15. Angiosperm diversification and Cretaceous environmental change / Richard Lupia, Peter R. Crane and Scott Lidgard -- 16. Cenozoic evolution of modern plant communities and vegetation / Margaret E. Collinson -- 17. Leaf physiognomy and climate change / Robert A. Spicer -- 18. Biotic response to late Quaternary global change -- the pollen record : a case study from the Upper Thames Valley, England / Adrian G. Parker -- 19. The Cretaceous and Cenozoic record of insects (Hexapods) with regard to global change / Andrew J. Ross, Ed A. Jarzembowski and Stephen J. Brooks -- 20. The palaeoclimatological significance of Late Cenozoic Coloeoptera : familiar species in very unfamiliar circumstances / G. Russell Coope -- 21. Amphibians, reptiles and birds : a biogeographical review / Angela C. Milner, Andrew R. Milner and Susan E. Evans -- 22. Paleogene mammals : crises and ecological change Jeremy J. Hooker -- 23. Response of Old World terrestrial vertebrate biotas to neogene climate change / Peter J. Whybrow and Peter Andrews -- 24. Mammalian response to global change in the later quaternary of the British Isles / Andrew Currant -- 25. Human evolution : how an African primate became global / Chris Stringer -- 26. The biotic responses to global change : a summary / Stephen J. Culver and Peter F. Rawson.

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Includes information on Asia, Australia, Britain, climate change, corals, environmental change, Europe, faunal turnovers, Flandrian environmental history, glaciation, human evolution, land bridges, mammals, North America, oceanic circulation, plant record, pollen records, reef communities, rifting, sea levels, species diversity/richness, Tibetan Plateau, terrestrial vertebrates, etc.

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