Ramkumar, Mu creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Electronic book. ne 2016 monographic eng

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1 online resource. 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. Mu Ramkumar. Includes bibliographical references. Paleoceanography Sea level Perturbation (Astronomy) SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology Paleoceanography Perturbation (Astronomy) Sea level QE39.5.P25 551.46 (OCoLC)927381659 9780128093252 0128093250 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128054154 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128054154 N$T 151111 20190328114813.0 ocn928714217 eng