Marine Paleobiodiversity : Responses to Sea Level Cycles and Perturbations /: Responses to Sea Level Cycles and Perturbations. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mu Ramkumar.
• Authors: Ramkumar, Mu
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. RATIONALE; 3. BIODIVERSITY AND HABITAT IN THE GEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE; 4. METHODS OF BIODIVERSITY AND HABITAT HETEROGENEITY ANALYSES; 4.1. Approaches of biodiversity; 4.2. Numerical methods and database based analyses; 4.3. Spatial biodiversity; 4.4. True and apparent biodiversity- biodiversity signals and causes of distortion; 4.5. Methods employed in removing biases in biodiversity signals; 5. COUPLED NATURE OF CLIMATE-SEA LEVEL AND THE INFLUENCE ON BIODIVERSITY; 5.1. Paleobiodiversity dynamics in the light of eustatic sea level cycles; 5.2. Climatic and oceanographic changes due to sea level fluctuations and biodiversity; 5.3. Scales of environmental changes and influences on biodiversity and habitat; 6. IMPACTS OF SEA LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS ON BIOTIC TURNOVER; 6.1. Long-term changes and biodiversity dynamics; 6.2. Short-term changes and perturbations and resultant biodiversity dynamics; 7. CONCLUSIONS; 8. REFERENCES
• Publisher Details: Elsevier
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (62 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780128093252; 0128093250
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