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Author Ramkumar, Mu, author.

Title Marine paleobiodiversity : responses to sea level cycles and perturbations / Mu Ramkumar.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Elsevier Ltd., 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 24, 2015).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary 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-reference between text book and highly-specialized journal articles, and so will be valuable for a wide audience of geologists and climatologists.
Contents 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.
Subject Paleoceanography.
Sea level.
Perturbation (Astronomy)
Paléo-océanographie.
Mer -- Niveau.
Perturbation (Astronomie)
sea level.
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology
Paleoceanography
Perturbation (Astronomy)
Sea level
Other Form: Original 0128054158 9780128054154 (OCoLC)927381659
ISBN 9780128093252 electronic bk.
0128093250 electronic bk.
9780128054154
0128054158
Standard No. GBVCP 843834390
DEBSZ 480344647
CHVBK 40394368X
CHBIS 010796111
DEBSZ 482467983
AU@ 000057002477
AU@ 000062548074

 
    
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