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UNINA9911004699303321 |
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Briggs John C |
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Global biogeography / / John C. Briggs |
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Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Elsevier, 1995 |
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1-281-06003-8 |
9786611060039 |
0-08-053254-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (473 p.) |
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Developments in palaeontology and stratigraphy ; ; 14 |
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Disciplina |
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Biogeography |
Paleobiogeography |
Biodiversity |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-426) and index. |
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Front Cover; Global Biogeography; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. History of the science; In the beginning; 19th century; 20th century; The advent of continental drift; The rise of vicarianism; The present work; PART A - HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY; Chapter 2. Precambrian and Early Paleozoic; Precambrian; Cambrian period; Ordovician period; End-Ordovician extinction; Summary; Chapter 3. Later Paleozoic; Silurian; Devonian; Frasnian extinction; Carboniferous-Permian; End-Permian extinction; Summary; Chapter 4. Early Mesozoic; Triassic; Jurassic; Summary |
Chapter 5. Late MesozoicCretaceous; Marine patterns; Terrestrial patterns; Cretaceous extinctions; Summary; Chapter 6. Paleogene; Paleocene; Eocene; Oligocene; Summary; Chapter 7. Neogene; Miocene; Pliocene; Pleistocene; Summary; Chapter 8. Historic extinctions; Historical development; Tempo of the extinctions; Scope of the extinctions; Effects on global species diversity; A common cause?; Biogeography and evolution; Conclusions; PART B - CONTEMPORARY BIOGEOGRAPHY; Chapter 9. Marine patterns, Part I; Latitudinal zones; Indo-West Pacific region; The East Indies: a center of origin? |
Modes of speciationIndo-West Pacific subdivisions; Eastern Pacific region; Western Atlantic region; Eastern Atlantic region; Relationships |
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of the tropical shelf regions; Latitudinal barriers; Summary; Chapter 10. Marine patterns, Part 2; Warm-temperate regions; Cold-temperate regions; The cold (polar) regions; The Pelagic realm; Deep Benthic realm; Summary; Chapter 11. Terrestrial patterns; Introduction; Animals; Plants; Summary; Chapter 12. Significant patterns; Antitropical distributions; Marine environment; Terrestrial environment; Discussion; Island life; Summary |
Chapter 13. Species diversity: land and seaGlobal diversity; Latitudinal gradients; Vertical gradients; Longitudinal gradients; Diversity and conservation; Summary; Chapter 14. Epilogue; References; Appendix: Biogeographer's maps; Subject Index; Geologic Time Scale |
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This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987). Global Biogeography traces global changes in geography and biology from the Precambrian to the Recent (with worldwide coverage in chronological order); examines the evolutionary effects of the major extinctions, and discusses contemporary biogeographic regions within the context of their historic origins. It is now apparent that the biotas of the various biogeographical regions have had, and still maintain, a dynamic relationship with one another; much more than |
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UNINA9910964074603321 |
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Intelligent autonomous systems 11 : IAS-11 / / edited by Henrik I. Christensen, Frans Groen and Emil Petriu |
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Amsterdam ; ; Washington, D.C., : IOS Press, 2010 |
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6612880465 |
1-282-88046-2 |
9786612880469 |
1-60750-613-0 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ChristensenHenrik I |
GroenF. C. A |
PetriuEmil |
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Intelligent control systems |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Title page -- Preface -- Conference Organization -- Contents -- Interactive Systems -- Nursing-Task Recognition Using Accelerometers and RFID -- Recognizing Nonverbal Affective Behavior in Humanoid Robots -- Feasibility of Interactive Localization and Navigation of People with Visual Impairments -- Learning -- Sequentially Greedy Unsupervised Learning of Gaussian Mixture Models by Means of a Binary Tree Structure -- On Ambiguity in Robot Learning from Demonstration -- Recognition and Motion Primitives for Autonomous Clothes Unfolding of Humanoid Robot -- Perception -- 3D Sensing System for Tracked Vehicle Robot Using Movable Laser Range Finder -- Simulating Robotic Auditory Environments -- Development of a Person Following Robot and Its Experimental Evaluation -- Vision -- Evaluating Pose Estimation Methods for Stereo Visual Odometry on Robots -- Object Search on a Mobile Robot Using Relational Spatial Information -- Safe Navigation on a Mobile Robot Using Local and Temporal Visual Cues -- Localization and Mapping -- Representing Spatial Knowledge in Mobile Cognitive Systems -- Landmark Rating and Selection Considering the Observability Regions -- Efficient Local Navigation |
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Using 1D Image Representations -- Navigation -- Autonomous Relative Navigation and Attitude Determination Using Vector Measurement -- Robot Mapping Based on Typicality -- On the Implementation of an Efficient Mobile Robot Navigation System: An RFID Approach -- Planning -- A Rapid Anytime Path Planner with Incorporated Range Sensing to Improve Control on Solution Quality -- Selection of Parameters and Algorithms in Multiple-Goal Task Realization -- Smooth Autonomous Driving on Braunschweig's Inner Ring Road -- Distributed Systems -- Behavior-Based Control of Self-Reconfigurable Robot Teams for Sensor Placement. |
Improving Market-Based Task Allocation with Optimal Seed Schedules -- A Thermodynamic Framework for Robot Colony Control -- Map-Merging-Free Connectivity Positioning for Distributed Robot Teams -- Subject Index -- Author Index. |
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This volume contains the proceedings of the eleventh International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-11) at the University of Ottawa in Canada. As ever, the purpose of the IAS conference is to bring together leading international researchers with an interest in all aspects of the autonomy and adaptivity of artificial systems. This year the conference reflects in particular a current trend: the symbiotic interaction of humans with intelligent systems. Of the 35 papers submitted for this year's conference, 25 have been accepted for presentation. These papers cover a wide spectrum of research in autonomous intelligent systems including interactive systems, learning, perception, localization and mapping, navigation planning and distributed systems. This proceedings includes all the accepted papers and reflects the wide variety of topics of current concern to all those involved in the use, research and development of intelligent autonomous systems. |
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