Events of Increased Biodiversity: Evolutionary Radiations in the Fossil Record - Couverture rigide

Neige, Pascal

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1785480294 ISBN 13 : 9781785480294

Editeur : ISTE Press Ltd - Elsevier Inc, 2015

Synopsis

The fossil record offers a surprising image: that of evolutionary radiations characterized by intense increases in cash or by the sudden diversification of a single species group, while others stagnate or die out. In a modern world, science carries an often pessimistic message, surrounded by studies of global warming and its effects, extinction crisis, emerging diseases and invasive species. This book fuels frequent "optimism" of the sudden increase in biodiversity by exploring this natural phenomenon.Events of Increased Biodiversity: Evolutionary Radiations in the Fossil Record explores this natural phenomenon of adaptive radiation including its effect on the increase in biodiversity events, their contribution to the changes and limitations in the fossil record, and examines the links between ecology and paleontology’s study of radiation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The fossil record offers a surprising image: that of evolutionary radiations characterized by intense increases in cash or by the sudden diversification of a single species group, while others stagnate or die out. In a modern world, science carries an often pessimistic message, surrounded by studies of global warming and its effects, extinction crisis, emerging diseases and invasive species. This book fuels frequent "optimism" of the sudden increase in biodiversity by exploring this natural phenomenon. Events of Increased Biodiversity: Evolutionary Radiations in the Fossil Record explores this natural phenomenon of adaptive radiation including its effect on the increase in biodiversity events, their contribution to the changes and limitations in the fossil record, and examines the links between ecology and paleontology’s study of radiation.

• Details examples of evolutionary radiations
• Explicitly addresses the effect of adaptation driven by ecological opportunity
• Examines the link between ecology and paleontology’s study of adaptive radiation

Revue de presse

"Although the most cited examples of adaptive radiation today tend to be neontological (e.g., Darwin’s finches, cichlid fishes, anole lizards), it is only fitting to return to the fossil record today for new examples and insights, as invertebrate paleontologist Pascal Neige has done here." --The Quarterly Review of Biology

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ISTE Press Ltd - Elsevier Inc
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785480294
• ISBN 13: 9781785480294
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Barbara Criscuolo; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; 20141; Italie