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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777814803321

Autore

Beerling D. J

Titolo

The emerald planet [[electronic resource] ] : how plants changed Earth's history / / David Beerling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-191642-0

1-281-14687-0

9786611146870

0-19-151307-5

1-4294-7001-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

581.3/8

Soggetti

Plants, Fossil

Plants - Evolution

Paleobotany

Paleoecology

Paleoclimatology

Historical geology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Leaves, genes, and greenhouse gases -- Oxygen and the lost world of giants -- An ancient ozone catastrophe? -- Global warming ushers in the dinosaur era -- The flourishing forests of Antarctica -- Paradise lost -- Nature's green revolution -- Through a glass darkly.

Sommario/riassunto

'The Emerald Planet' reveals the crucial role that plants have played in driving & recording climatic change. The book provides an important perspective on the controversial & crucial subject of global warming - for we can only understand climate change by looking into the distant past, long before the rise of humankind.