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This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987). <IT>Global Biogeography</IT> traces global changes in geography and biology from the Precambrian to the Recent (with worldwide coverage in chronological order);...
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | 1995. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Developments in palaeontology and stratigraphy ;
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/09205446/14 |
| Summary: |
This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987). <IT>Global Biogeography</IT> traces global changes in geography and biology from the Precambrian to the Recent (with worldwide coverage in chronological order); examines the evolutionary effects of the major extinctions, and discusses contemporary biogeographic regions within the context of their historic origins. It is now apparent that the biotas of the various biogeographical regions have had, and still maintain, a dynamic relationship with one another; much more |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvii, 452 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-426) and index. |
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0444882979 9780444882974 0080532543 9780080532547 |
| Index Number: | QH84 |
| CLC: | Q15 |
| Contents: | Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. History of the science -- In the beginning -- 19th century -- 20th century -- The advent of continental drift -- The rise of vicarianism -- The present work -- PART A -- HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY -- Chapter 2. Precambrian and Early Paleozoic -- Precambrian -- Cambrian period -- Ordovician period -- End-Ordovician extinction -- Summary -- Chapter 3. Later Paleozoic -- Silurian -- Devonian -- Frasnian extinction -- Carboniferous-Permian -- End-Permian extinction -- Summary -- Chapter 4. Early Mesozoic -- Triassic -- Jurassic -- Summar |