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This uniquely interdisciplinary textbook explores the exciting and complex relationship between Earth's geological history and the biodiversity of life. Its innovative design provides a seamless learning experience, clarifying major concepts step by step with detailed textual explanations compl...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Heidelberg : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This uniquely interdisciplinary textbook explores the exciting and complex relationship between Earth's geological history and the biodiversity of life. Its innovative design provides a seamless learning experience, clarifying major concepts step by step with detailed textual explanations complemented by detailed figures, diagrams and vibrant pictures. Thanks to its layout, the respective concepts can be studied individually, as part of the broader framework of each chapter, or as they relate to the book as a whole. It provides in-depth coverage of: Earth's formation and subsequent geologica |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 401 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, color portraits ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-385) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783662463932 3662463938 |
| Index Number: | QH541 |
| CLC: | Q16 |
| Call Number: | Q16/B671 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Earth's history : Fundamentals of the geosciences ; The Precambrian ; The Phanerozoic eon -- 3. Distribution of present-day biodiversity : Basics of the biogeographical distribution of taxa ; Biodiversity distribution -- 4. Megasystematics : Basics of megasystematics ; Unikonta (=Amorphea) ; Excavata ; Archaeplastida ; Rhizaria ; Alveolata and stramenopiles ; Hacrobia and the eukaryotes of uncertain placement (incertae sedis). |