03522cam a2200541Ii 4500 ocn928714217 OCoLC 20190328114813.0 m o d cr cnu|||unuuu 151111s2016 ne ob 000 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T IDEBK N$T UIU OPELS YDXCP OCLCF CDX DEBSZ VGM OCLCQ UPM U3W D6H AU@ WYU TKN 930335616 1066462806 9780128093252 electronic bk. 0128093250 electronic bk. 9780128054154 0128054158 (OCoLC)928714217 (OCoLC)930335616 (OCoLC)1066462806 QE39.5.P25 SCI 030000 bisacsh SCI 031000 bisacsh 551.46 23 Ramkumar, Mu, author. Marine paleobiodiversity : responses to sea level cycles and perturbations / [electronic resource] Mu Ramkumar. Amsterdam : Elsevier Ltd., 2016. �2016 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 24, 2015). Includes bibliographical references. Marine Paleobiodiversity presents a concise history, development and current status of paleobiodiversity research, thus forming a reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates, who are interested in this subject and intend venture into serious research. This book provides a link-reference between text book and highly-specialized journal articles, and so will be valuable for a wide audience of geologists and climatologists. Front Cover; Marine Paleobiodiversity; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Rationale; 3 Geological Perspective on Biodiversity and Habitat; 3.1 Terminologies; 3.2 Types and Components; 3.3 Geological Perspective; 3.4 The Link Between Geological Processes and Biodiversity; 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-Signals and Causes of Distortion; 4.5 Methods of Bias Correction. 5 Climate-Sea Level Coupling and its Influence on Biodiversity5.1 Paleobiodiversity Dynamics in the Light of Eustatic Sea-Level Cycles; 5.2 Biodiversity Dynamics Due to Climatic and Oceanographic Changes; 5.3 Environmental Changes and Relative Influences on Biodiversity and Habitat; 6 Impacts of Sea-Level Fluctuations on Biotic Turnover; 6.1 Long-Term Changes and Biodiversity Dynamics; 6.2 Biodiversity Dynamics Due to Short-Term Sea-Level Changes and Perturbations; 7 What Holds for the Future; References; Back Cover. Paleoceanography. Sea level. Perturbation (Astronomy) SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography bisacsh SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology bisacsh Paleoceanography. fast (OCoLC)fst01051357 Perturbation (Astronomy) fast (OCoLC)fst01058904 Sea level. fast (OCoLC)fst01110054 Electronic books. Electronic book. Original 0128054158 9780128054154 (OCoLC)927381659 ScienceDirect http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128054154 247219 247219