Biotic Response to Global Change: The Last 145 Million Years

Book Overview

From Cretaceous times to the present, the Earth's climate changed from a very warm, greenhouse phase with no ice sheets to the ice-house world of today. In this book over forty specialists investigate the many ways that life has reacted to the global environmental changes that have taken place during this period. Coverage details a wide spectrum of animal, plant, and protistan life, with the focus on aspects such as extinctions, diversity, and biogeography. This volume will be an invaluable reference for researchers and graduate students in paleontology, geology, biology, oceanography and climatology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521034191
• ISBN13: 9780521034197
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.7"