Nature through time : virtual field trips through the nature of the past

Nature through time : virtual field trips through the nature of the past / Edoardo Martinetto, Emanuel Tschopp, Robert A. Gastaldo, editors.

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 animal...

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Other Authors: Martinetto, Edoardo (Editor), Tschopp, Emanuel (Editor), Gastaldo, Robert A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
Series:Springer textbooks in earth sciences, geography and environment.
Subjects:
Paleontology.
paleontology.
Biodiversity
Environmental geology
Evolution (Biology)
Geobiology
Paleontology
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Table of 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.

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