David J. Cantrill, Imogen Poole

The Vegetation of Antarctica Through Geological Time

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Produktbeschreibung

Looks at the fossil plant history of Antarctica and its relationship to the global record of environmental and climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 490
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1017g
• ISBN-13: 9780521855983
• ISBN-10: 0521855985
• Artikelnr.: 33768396

Autorenporträt

David J. Cantrill is Chief Botanist and Director of the National Herbarium of Victoria at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Australia. Throughout his academic life he has undertaken extensive work across the southern hemisphere, particularly Antarctica, researching fossil floras from the Permian to early Cenozoic. His research into Antarctic biotas has concentrated on the systematic composition of floras, paleoecology, the role of Antarctica in mediating climate and biogeographic patterns during Gondwana break up and developing present day patterns of austral plant distribution.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Colonization of the land
3. Deglaciation and colonization of the South Pole
4. Mass extinction and life in the Triassic
5. Continental break up and its impact on Jurassic vegetation
6. Fern-conifer dominated lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) ecosystems and the angiosperm invasion
7. The origin of southern temperate ecosystems
8. The heat is on: Paleogene floras and the Paleocene-Eocene warm period
9. After the heat: late Eocene to Pliocene climatic cooling and modification of the Antarctic vegetation
Index.