The emerald planet : how plants changed Earth's history / / David Beerling
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| Autore: |
Beerling D. J
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| Titolo: |
The emerald planet : how plants changed Earth's history / / David Beerling
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 581.3/8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Plants, Fossil |
| Plants - Evolution | |
| Paleobotany | |
| Paleoecology | |
| Paleoclimatology | |
| Historical geology | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The emerald planet |
| ISBN: | 0-19-191642-0 |
| 1-281-14687-0 | |
| 9786611146870 | |
| 0-19-151307-5 | |
| 1-4294-7001-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819289903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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