ELEC copy purchased with funds from ExxonMobil Retiree Matching Gift Program on behalf of Adrienne Cadik.
ELEC copy purchased with funds from ExxonMobil Retiree Matching Gift Program on behalf of Adrienne Cadik
Contents:
Chapter 1: The last three millions of unequal spring thaws / Edoardo Martinetto, Adele Bertini, Sudarshan Bhandari, Angela A. Bruch, Eugenio Cerilli, Marco Cherin et al. -- Chapter 2: Triumph and fall of the wet, warmer and never-more-diverse temperate forests (Oligocene-Pliocene) / Edoardo Martinetto, Nareerat Boonchai, Friðger Grímsson, Paul Joseph Grote, Gregory Jordan, Marianna Kováčová et al. -- Chapter 3: Aridity, cooling, open vegetation and the evolution of plants and animals in the Cenozoic / Juha Saarinen, Dimitra Mantzouka, Jakub Sakala -- Chapter 4: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Plants as Paleothermometers, Rain Gauges, and Monitors / Melanie L. DeVore, Kathleen B. Pigg -- Chapter 5: When and why Nature gained Angiosperms / Jiří Kvaček, Clement Coiffard, Maria Gandolfo, Alexei B. Herman, Julien Legrand, Mário Miguel Mendes et al. -- Chapter 6: Postcards from the Mesozoic: Forest landscapes with giant flowering trees, enigmatic seed ferns, and other naked-seed plants / Carole T. Gee, Heidi M. Anderson, John M. Anderson, Sidney R. Ash,David J. Cantrill, Johanna H. A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, and Vivi Vajda -- Chapter 7: Dinosaurs, but not only: Vertebrate evolution in the Mesozoic / Emanuel Tschopp, Ricardo Araújo, Stephen L. Brusatte, Christophe Hendrickx, Loredana Macaluso, Susannah C. R. Maidment et al. -- Chapter 8: How to Live with Dinosaurs: Ecosystems across the Mesozoic / Emanuel Tschopp, Daniel E. Barta, Winand Brinkmann, John R. Foster, Femke M. Holwerda, Susannah C. R. Maidment et al. -- Chapter 9: Early Mesozoic Nature in and around Tethys / Guido Roghi, Ricardo Araújo, Massimo Bernardi, Fabrizio Bizzarini, Mirco Neri, Fabio Massimo Petti et al. -- Chapter 10: The End-Permian Mass Extinction: Nature's revolution / Massimo Delfino, Evelyn Kustatscher, Fabrizio Lavezzi, Massimo Bernardi -- Chapter 11: Long-lasting morphologies despite evolution: Ferns (monilophytes) throughout the Phanerozoic / Josef Pšenička, Jun Wang, Ronny Rößler, Mihai Emilian Popa, Jiří Kvaček -- Chapter 12: The non-analog vegetation of the Late Paleozoic Icehouse-Hothouse and their coal-forming forested environments / Robert A. Gastaldo, Marion Bamford, John Calder, William A. DiMichele, Roberto Iannuzzi, André Jasper et al. -- Chapter 13: The Coal Farms of the Late Paleozoic / Robert A. Gastaldo, Marion Bamford, John Calder, William A. DiMichele, Roberto Iannuzzi, André Jasper et al. -- Chapter 14: Diving with trilobites: Life in the Silurian-Devonian seas / Oive Tinn, Tõnu Meidla, Leho Ainsaar -- Chapter 15: Back to the beginnings: The Silurian-Devonian as a time of major innovation in plants and their communities / Patricia G. Gensel, Ian Glasspool, Robert A. Gastaldo, Milan Libertin, Jiří Kvaček
Summary:
This book simulates a historical walk through nature, teaching readers about the biodiversity on Earth in various eras with a focus on past terrestrial environments. Geared towards a student audience, using simple terms and avoiding long complex explanations, the book discusses the plants and animals that lived on land, the evolution of natural systems, and how these biological systems changed over time in geological and paleontological contexts. With easy-to-understand and scientifically accurate and up-to-date information, readers will be guided through major biological events from the Earth's past. The topics in the book represent a broad paleoenvironmental spectrum of interests and educational modules, allowing for virtual visits to rich geological times. Eras and events that are discussed include, but are not limited to, the much varied Quaternary environments, the evolution of plants and animals during the Cenozoic, the rise of angiosperms, vertebrate evolution and ecosystems in the Mesozoic, the Permian mass extinction, the late Paleozoic glaciation, and the origin of the first trees and land plants in the Devonian-Ordovician. With state-of-the art expert scientific instruction on these topics and up-to-date and scientifically accurate illustrations, this book can serve as an international course for students, teachers, and other interested individuals
