David Beerling

The Emerald Planet

How plants changed Earth's history

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Produktbeschreibung

The Emerald Planet'is the tale of our world's past - and future - as revealed by plants. Over the immensity of geological time, plants have been powerful agents of change, shaping the climate, the planet, and affecting the evolutionary path of all life. Here, David Beerling tells how.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780199548149
• ISBN-10: 0199548145
• Artikelnr.: 23603650

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Leaves, genes, and greenhouse gases
3: Oxygen and the lost world of giants
4: An ancient ozone catastrophe?
5: Global warming ushers in the dinosaur era
6: The flourishing forests of Antarctica
7: Paradise lost
8: Nature's green revolution
9: Through a glass darkly
Notes
Index

Rezensionen

Review from previous edition My favorite nonfiction book this year. A minutely-argued but highly readable history of the last half-billion years on earth. The story Beerling tells could not have been put together even ten years ago, for it depends upon the latest insights from palaeontology, climate science, genetics, molecular biology, and chemistry, all brilliantly and beautifully integrated together. I got a special deep, quiet pleasure from reading The Emerald Planet -the sort of pleasure one gets from reading Darwin. Oliver Sacks, Book of the Year, Observer