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Biotic crises in ecological and evolutionary time

Title: Biotic crises in ecological and evolutionary time / edited by Matthew H. Nitecki.
Author: Spring Systematics Symposium (3rd : 1980 : Field Museum of Natural History)
Publication: New York : Academic Press, 1981.

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xii, 301 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Note

"Proceedings of the third annual Spring Systematics Symposium: Biotic Crises in Ecological and Evolutionary Time, held at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, May 10, 1980, sponsored by the Field Museum of Natural History and the National Science Foundation.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: What is a crisis? / David M. Raup -- The astrophysical framework of life / David N. Schramm -- Physical disturbance in the life of plants / Hugh M. Raup -- Community effects of introduced species / Daniel S. Simberloff -- The pre-Phanerozoic biosphere : three billion years of crises and opportunities / Stanley M. Awramik -- Climatic oscillations in the biosphere / Alfred G. Fischer -- The great American interchange : an invasion-induced crisis for South American mammals / Larry G. Marshall -- Living with crises : human perception of process and time / Michael E. Moseley, Robert A. Feldman, and Charles R. Ortloff -- Listening to a symposium : a summary and prospectus / Lawrence B. Slobodkin.

ISBN

0125196407
9780125196406

LCCN

80039632

OCLC

ocm07168576
7168576
SCSB-51705

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Princeton University Library