Title Extinction intervals and biogeographic perturbations through time : Earth and life / edited by John A. Talent

Published Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2009

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Description 1 online resource Series International year of planet Earth International year of planet Earth. Contents Part I. Articles of a General Nature -- Phanerozoic Marine Biodiversity: A Fresh Look at Data, Methods, Patterns and Processes / Martin Aberhan and Wolfgang Kiessling -- Coordinated Stasis Reconsidered: A Perspective at Fifteen Years / Carlton E. Brett -- Whilst This Planet Has Gone Cycling On: What Role for Periodic Astronomical Phenomena in Large-Scale Patterns in the History of Life? / Bruce S. Lieberman and Adrian L. Melott -- Climate Change Through Time / John Dodson -- Development of Intertidal Biotas Through Phanerozoic Time / Markes E. Johnson and B. Gudveig Baarli -- Marine Sclerobiofacies: Encrusting and Endolithic Communities on Shells Through Time and Space / Carlton E. Brett, Trisha Smrecak, Karla Parsons Hubbard and Sally Walker -- Brachiopods and Their Auloporid Epibionts in the Devonian of Boulonnais (France): Comparison with Other Associations Globally / Bruno Mistiaen, Denise Brice, Mikolaj K. Zapalski and Christian Loones -- Fossil Fish Taphonomy and the Contribution of Microfossils in Documenting Devonian Vertebrate History / Carole J. Burrow and Susan Turner -- Messel Pit Fossil Site -- The Legacy of the Environment and Life of the Eocene / Stephan Schaal Part II. Evolution Exemplified by Specific Phyla or Classes -- Evolutionary Scenario of the Early History of the Animal Kingdom: Evidence from Precambrian (Ediacaran) Weng'an and Early Cambrian Maotianshan Biotas, China / Jun-Yuan Chen -- The Ordovician Radiation: Macroevolutionary Crossroads of the Phanerozoic / Arnold I. Miller -- Phylogeny of Palaeozoic Gastropods Inferred from Their Ontogeny / Jiří Frýda -- Palaeozoic Innovations in the Micro- and Megafossil Plant Record: From the Earliest Plant Spores to the Earliest Seeds / Philippe Steemans, Elodie Petus, Pierre Breuer, Paula Mauller-Mendlowicz and Philippe Gerrienne -- Tentaculitoids -- An Enigmatic Group of Palaeozoic Fossils / Eberhard Schindler -- Palaeozoic Ammonoids -- Diversity and Development of Conch Morphology / Dieter Korn and Christian Klug -- Quantitative Approach to Diversity and Decline in Late Palaeozoic Trilobites / Rudy Lerosey-Aubril and Raimund Feist -- Devonian Cladid Crinoid Evolution, Diversity, and First and Last Occurrences: Summary Observations / Gary D. Webster -- Palaeoecology, Aerodynamics, and the Origin of Avian Flight / Sankar Chatterjee and R. Jack Templin Part III. Global Extinction Events and Biocrises -- An Analysis of the Ireviken Event in the Boree Creek Formation, New South Wales, Australia / Peter D. Molloy and Andrew J. Simpson -- Isotope Geochemistry and Plankton Response to the Ireviken (Earliest Wenlock) and Cyrtograptus lundgreni Extinction Events, Cape Phillips Formation, Arctic Canada / Paula J. Noble, Alfred C. Lenz, Chris Holmden, Monika Masiak and Matthew K. Zimmerman, et al. -- Late Ludfordian Correlations and the Lau Event / Lennart Jeppsson, John A. Talent, Ruth Mawson, Anita Andrew and Carlo Corradini, et al. -- The Late Middle Devonian (Givetian) Global Taghanic Biocrisis in Its Type Area (Northern Appalachian Basin): Geologically Rapid Faunal Transitions Driven by Global and Local Environmental Changes / James J. Zambito IV, Carlton E. Brett and Gordon C. Baird -- The Permian--A Time of Major Evolutions and Revolutions in the History of Life / Monica J. Campi -- Millennial Physical Events and the End-Permian Mass Mortality in the Western Palaeotethys: Timing and Primary Causes / Enzo Farabegoli and Maria Cristina Perri -- The Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction, Chicxulub Impact, and Deccan Volcanism / Gerta Keller -- Survival, but ...! New Tales of 'Dead Clade Walking' from Austral and Boreal Post-K-T Assemblages / Jeffrey D. Stilwell and Eckart Håkansson -- Fungi, a Driving Force in Normalization of the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Following the End-Cretaceous Extinction / Vivi Vajda Part IV. Palaeobiogeography -- Changes in the Pattern of Brachiopod Biogeography in Northern Asia Through Early and Middle Devonian Times / John A. Talent, Yevgeniy A. Yolkin, Valentina N. Yolkina, Tat'yana P. Kipriyanova and Rimma T. Gratsianova -- The Paleobiogeography of Pennsylvanian Crinoids and Blastoids / Johnny Waters and Gary D. Webster -- Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Ostracods from Western Australia: What They Reveal About Evolution of the Indian Ocean / Michelle Guzel -- Cretaceous Continental Bridges, Insularity, and Vicariance in the Southern Hemisphere: Which Route Did Dinosaurs Take? / Federico Fanti -- Palaeobiogeography of Mesozoic Mammals -- Revisited / Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich Part V. Cenozoic Era -- Cenozoic Environmental Shifts and Foraminiferal Evolution / Brian McGowran -- Miocene Asteroid Impacts: Proposed Effects on the Biogeography and Extinction Patterns of Eastern North American Gastropods / Edward J. Petuch -- The Rise of Australian Marsupials: A Synopsis of Biostratigraphic, Phylogenetic, Palaeoecologic and Palaeobiogeographic Understanding / Karen H. Black, Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand and Henk Godthelp Summary This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization. Intense scrutiny is devoted to the pattern of physical (including isotopic), sedimentary and biotic circumstances through the time intervals during which life crises occurred. These events affected terrestrial, lacustrine and estuarine ecosystems, locally and globally, but have affected continental shelf ecosystems and even deep ocean ecosystems. The pattern of these events is the backdrop against which modelling the pattern of future environmental change needs to be evaluated Analysis biodiversiteit biodiversity fysische geografie physical geography biogeowetenschappen biogeosciences aardwetenschappen earth sciences geologie geology ecologie ecology Geology (General) Geologie (algemeen) Notes Print version record Subject Extinction (Biology) Biogeography. Ecological disturbances. Biogeography Ecological disturbances Extinction (Biology) Form Electronic book Author Talent, John A. ISBN 9789048134281 9048134285

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