Author: Mark WilliamsPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862392403
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Deep-time Perspectives on Climate Change
Author: Mark WilliamsPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862392403
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Multicellular Animals
Author: Peter AxPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662103966
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The system of multicellular animals presented here is an alternative to the traditional classification system. In a new approach to the phylogenetic order, this book strives for an objective systematization of the metazoa, seeking a new path in the field of academic research and teaching.
Earth and Life
Author: John A. TalentPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048134285
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
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.
Mineralogy of Phanerozoic Skeletal and Sedimentary Apatites
Author: Jüri NemliherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apatite
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Author: Oceanic Abstracts
Author: Bibliographie Internationale Des Recensions de la Litt Érature Savante
Author: Meiobenthology
Author: Olav GierePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 366202912X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
This is a comprehensive treatise on meiobenthology, the science of small animals which live, often disregarded even by zoologists, in huge numbers in all aquatic sediments. Covering all the scientific literature on the subject, particular emphasis is placed on ecological and systematic aspects. After a survey of the biotope conditions and important methods, the animals are introduced in a systematic account. This is followed by a report on the meiobenthos in relevant biotopes. The book concludes with an analysis of the productive role and the position of meiofauna in the food web and perspectives for future research.
A Compendium of Fossil Marine Families
Author: J. John SepkoskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Arthropod Biology and Evolution
Author: Alessandro MinelliPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642361609
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
More than two thirds of all living organisms described to date belong to the phylum Arthropoda. But their diversity, as measured in terms of species number, is also accompanied by an amazing disparity in terms of body form, developmental processes, and adaptations to every inhabitable place on Earth, from the deepest marine abysses to the earth surface and the air. The Arthropoda also include one of the most fashionable and extensively studied of all model organisms, the fruit-fly, whose name is not only linked forever to Mendelian and population genetics, but has more recently come back to centre stage as one of the most important and more extensively investigated models in developmental genetics. This approach has completely changed our appreciation of some of the most characteristic traits of arthropods as are the origin and evolution of segments, their regional and individual specialization, and the origin and evolution of the appendages. At approximately the same time as developmental genetics was eventually turning into the major agent in the birth of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), molecular phylogenetics was challenging the traditional views on arthropod phylogeny, including the relationships among the four major groups: insects, crustaceans, myriapods, and chelicerates. In the meantime, palaeontology was revealing an amazing number of extinct forms that on the one side have contributed to a radical revisitation of arthropod phylogeny, but on the other have provided evidence of a previously unexpected disparity of arthropod and arthropod-like forms that often challenge a clear-cut delimitation of the phylum.