The emerald planet : how plants changed Earth's history /

'The past, ' declared the celebrated palaeobotanist Albert Seward, 'seizes upon us with its shadowy hand and holds us to listen to its tale.'. This book is the tale of our world's past - and future - as revealed by plants. Newly found clues in the fossil record show plants t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beerling, D. J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Plants, Fossil.
Plants > Evolution.
Paleobotany.
Paleoecology.
Paleoclimatology.
Historical geology.
Plantes fossiles.
Plantes > Évolution.
Paléobotanique.
Paléoécologie.
Paléoclimatologie.
Géologie historique.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
Historical geology
Paleobotany
Paleoclimatology
Paleoecology
Plants > Evolution
Plants, Fossil
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Leaves, genes, and greenhouse gases
  • Oxygen and the lost world of giants
  • An ancient ozone catastrophe?
  • Global warming ushers in the dinosaur era
  • The flourishing forests of Antarctica
  • Paradise lost
  • Nature's green revolution
  • Through a glass darkly.

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