Land bridges : ancient environments, plant migrations, and new world connections / / Alan Graham |
Autore | Graham Alan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) |
Disciplina | 551.41 |
Soggetto topico |
Natural bridges - Western Hemisphere
Landforms - Western Hemisphere Biogeography - Western Hemisphere Plant diversity - Western Hemisphere |
Soggetto non controllato |
Antillean
Bering Cenozoic Central American Cretaceous Magellan New World North Atlantic climate land bridges |
ISBN | 0-226-54432-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS, TIME SCALE, AND CONVERSIONS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Boreal Land Bridges -- PART TWO. Equatorial Land Bridges -- PART THREE. Austral Land Bridge -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910838350203321 |
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Marine Geomorphometry |
Autore | Dolan Margaret |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (400 p.) |
Soggetto non controllato |
geomorphology
simulation accuracy spatial scale marine geomorphology surface roughness forage fish satellite imagery thalwegs digital elevation models (DEMs) Seabed 2030 Pacific sand lance Acoustic applications python Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Oceanic Shoals Australian Marine Park submarine topography multi beam echosounder sedimentation bedforms carbonate banks polychaete cold-water coral multiscale automated-mapping semi-automated mapping sediment habitats Atlantic Ocean Northwestern Australia random forest benthic habitat mapping paleoclimate submerged glacial bedforms seafloor currents Cenomanian–Turonian Multibeam bathymetry geomorphometry ArcGIS filter seabed mapping coral reefs eastern Brazilian shelf digital terrain analysis multibeam spatial resolution multibeam multibeam sonar Timor Sea seafloor geomorphometry shelf-slope-rise terrain analysis seafloor mapping technologies spatial analysis Canary Basin paleobathymetry Bonaparte Basin pockmarks benthic habitats Malin Basin geographic object-based image analysis seafloor mapping standards and protocols GIS Bering Sea object segmentation Barents Sea bathymetry carbonate mound underwater acoustics integration artefacts multibeam echosounder domes global bathymetry Random Forests North Sea spatial prediction Glaciated Margin marine geology image segmentation shelf morphology Alaska paleoceanography confidence swath geometry volcanoes deglaciation Cretaceous DEM habitat mapping marine remote sensing reconstruction acoustic-seismic profiling canyons |
ISBN | 3-03897-955-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910346663203321 |
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On Gaia [[electronic resource] ] : a critical investigation of the relationship between life and earth / / Toby Tyrrell |
Autore | Tyrrell Toby <1965-> |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
Disciplina | 570.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Gaia hypothesis
Ecology - Philosophy |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cretaceous
Earth climate Earth environment Earth history Gaia hypothesis Gaia James Lovelock anaerobes anthropic principle astronomical processes atmosphere atmospheric CO2 atmospheric science biodiversity biological processes biomass biosphere carbon chemical equilibrium climate science climate shifts climatic state coevolutionary hypothesis diatoms ecological dynamics ecology environmental catastrophes environmental control environmental preferences environmental regulation eusocial colonies evolution evolutionary advances evolutionary biology evolutionary dynamics evolutionary inventions extremophiles first forests fossil evidence genetic similarity genetic uniformity geological forces geological hypothesis geology global environment growth habitat commitment homeostatic regulations ice ages icy climates interglacials land plants life persistence life living organisms long-term life metabolic rates methane natural selection oceanography optimal temperatures oxygen-dependent photosynthesis oxygen-yielding photosynthesis oxygen oxygenic photosynthesis planetary environment planetary regulation plant transpiration primary production single organisms stability temperature effects temperature vegetation |
ISBN | 1-4008-4791-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Gaia, the Grand Idea -- 2. Good Citizens or Selfish Genes? -- 3. Life at the Edge: Lessons from Extremophiles -- 4. Temperature Paces Life -- 5. Icehouse Earth -- 6. Given Enough Time . . . -- 7. Evolutionary Innovations and Environmental Change -- 8. A Stable or an Unstable World? -- 9. The Puzzle of Life's Long Persistence -- 10. Conclusions -- Notes -- Further Reading -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786971303321 |
Tyrrell Toby <1965->
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