Extinctions in the history of life
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Paul D Taylor
- ناشر : Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2004
- شابک / ISBN : 9786611112929
Description
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.
"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.
