Research Catalog

Title

Effects of past global change on life / Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Earth Sciences and Resources.

Description

xiv, 250 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in geophysics

Uniform Title

Studies in geophysics.

Subject

• Paleoecology
• Paleoclimatology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Oxygen and Proterozoic Evolution: An Update / Andrew H. Knoll and Heinrich D. Holland -- 2. Impact of Late Ordovician Glaciation-Deglaciation on Marine Life / W. B. N. Berry, M. S. Quinby-Hunt and P. Wilde -- 3. Global Change Leading to Biodiversity Crisis in a Greenhouse World: The Cenomanian-Turonian (Cretaceous) Mass Extinction / Earle G. Kauffman -- 4. Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) Mass Extinction: Effect of Global Change on Calcareous Microplankton / Gerta Keller and Katharina v. Salis Perch-Nielsen -- 5. Terminal Paleocene Mass Extinction in the Deep Sea: Association with Global Warming / James P. Kennett and Lowell D. Stott -- 6. Tropical Climate Stability and Implications for the Distribution of Life / Eric J. Barron -- 7. Neogene Ice Age in the North Atlantic Region: Climatic Changes, Biotic Effects, and Forcing Factors / Steven M. Stanley and William F. Ruddiman.
• 8. 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 -- 9. 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 -- 10. The Impact of Climatic Changes on the Development of the Australian Flora / David C. Christophel -- 11. Global Climatic Influence on Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas / S. David Webb and Neil D. Opdyke -- 12. Biotic Responses to Temperature and Salinity Changes During Last Deglaciation, Gulf of Mexico / Benjamin P. Flower and James P. Kennett -- 13. Pollen Records of Late Quaternary Vegetation Change: Plant Community Rearrangements and Evolutionary Implications / Thompson Webb III -- 14. Climatic Forcing and the Origin of the Human Genus / Steven M. Stanley.

ISBN

0309051274

LCCN

94038695

OCLC

ocm31241864

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Columbia University Libraries