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Marine paleobiodiversity : responses to sea level cycles and perturbations /

Marine Paleobiodiversity presents a concise history, development and current status of paleobiodiversity research, thus forming a reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates, who are interested in this subject and intend venture into serious research. This book provides a link-referenc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ramkumar, Mu (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Elsevier Ltd., 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Marine Paleobiodiversity; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Rationale; 3 Geological Perspective on Biodiversity and Habitat; 3.1 Terminologies; 3.2 Types and Components; 3.3 Geological Perspective; 3.4 The Link Between Geological Processes and Biodiversity; 4 Methods of Biodiversity and Habitat Heterogeneity Analyses; 4.1 Approaches of Biodiversity; 4.2 Numerical Methods and Database-Based Analyses; 4.3 Spatial Biodiversity; 4.4 True and Apparent Biodiversity-Signals and Causes of Distortion; 4.5 Methods of Bias Correction.
  • 5 Climate-Sea Level Coupling and its Influence on Biodiversity5.1 Paleobiodiversity Dynamics in the Light of Eustatic Sea-Level Cycles; 5.2 Biodiversity Dynamics Due to Climatic and Oceanographic Changes; 5.3 Environmental Changes and Relative Influences on Biodiversity and Habitat; 6 Impacts of Sea-Level Fluctuations on Biotic Turnover; 6.1 Long-Term Changes and Biodiversity Dynamics; 6.2 Biodiversity Dynamics Due to Short-Term Sea-Level Changes and Perturbations; 7 What Holds for the Future; References; Back Cover.