Download Quaternary Palaeoecology ebook PDF or Read Online books in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format. Click Download or Read Online button to Quaternary Palaeoecology book pdf for free now.
Author : Harry John Betteley Birks
ISBN : 1930665563
Genre : Science
File Size : 84.71 MB
Format : PDF, Mobi
Download : 601
Read : 850
Quaternary Palaeoecology, first published in 1980, discusses the methods and approaches by which Quaternary environments can be reconstructed from the fossil and sedimentary record. This knowledge is of great value as the Quaternary was a time of rapid ecological change, culminating in the present pattern and diversity of ecosystems. It is possible not only to relate these changes to fluctuating climates but also to infer what Man's early influence may have been. The authors describe how past flora and fauna can be reconstructed and how the numbers of fossils can be used to reconstruct past plant and animal populations and communities, and past environments. John Birks has researched in a variety of fields within Quaternary palaeoecology, including pollen analysis and vegetation history, environmental change, past climate reconstruction, and palaeolimnology. Since the 1980s he has introduced and developed numerical methods and quantitative approaches into palaeoecology and palaeolimnology. Besides research in Norway and the UK, he has also worked on palaeoecological problems in Svalbard, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Minnesota, and the Yukon. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals and has published widely on many aspects of Quaternary palaeoecology. He is currently Professor of Quantitative Palaeoecology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and University College London, UK. Hilary Birks researches on palaeoecology and past climates primarily through the use of plant macrofossil analysis. She took up the study of plant macrofossils in Minnesota, USA in 1970, where she investigated the modern representation of plants in lake sediments by their fruits and seeds, and also worked on the palaeolimnological record of recent eutrophication and late-glacial palaeoecology. Since then she has extended her macrofossil studies to the late-glacial of Scotland and western Norway, the full-glacial of Beringia (Alaska) and recent changes in North African lakes brought about by human activities. She is Professor of Palaeoecology at the University of Bergen, Norway and teaches palaeoecology at the University of Bergen and University College London, UK.
Author : Eduard Meine van Zinderen Bakker
ISBN : UOM:39015034371651
Genre : Paleobotany
File Size : 34.18 MB
Format : PDF, ePub, Docs
Download : 323
Read : 178
Vol. 8 contains the proceedings of the International Council of Scientific Unions, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Conference on Quaternary Studies held at ... Canberra ... 1972.
Author : Peter O. Dunn
ISBN : 9780198824268
Genre :
File Size : 51.49 MB
Format : PDF, Mobi
Download : 354
Read : 445
Climate change issues are attracting rapidly increasing interest from a wide range of biologists due to their unprecedented effects on global biodiversity, although there remains a lack of general knowledge as to the environmental consequences of such rapid change. Compared with any other class of animals, birds provide more long-term data and extensive time series, a more geographically and taxonomically diverse source of information, a richer source of data on a greater range of topics dealing with the effects of climate change, and a longer tradition of extensive research. The first edition of the book was widely cited and this new edition continues to provide an exhaustive and up-to-date synthesis of our rapidly expanding level of knowledge as it relates to birds, highlighting new methods and areas for future research.
Author :
ISBN :
Genre :
File Size : 80.48 MB
Format : PDF
Download : 362
Read : 479
New Scientist magazine was launched in 1956 "for all those men and women who are interested in scientific discovery, and in its industrial, commercial and social consequences". The brand's mission is no different today - for its consumers, New Scientist reports, explores and interprets the results of human endeavour set in the context of society and culture.
Author : John J. Lowe
ISBN : UOM:39015010189911
Genre : Geology, Stratigraphic
File Size : 21.79 MB
Format : PDF, ePub
Download : 191
Read : 428
Examines the various forms of evidence used to establish the history and scale of environmental changes during the Quaternary. The evidence ranges from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and isotope ratios.
Author : B. E. Berglund
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018337670
Genre : Science
File Size : 67.4 MB
Format : PDF, ePub, Docs
Download : 894
Read : 419
Consists of well-documented data on palaeoecological changes since deglaciation related to vegetation, lake development, mire, soil erosion, human impact, etc. The majority of the book is concerned with regional syntheses of palaeoecological changes in 21 European countries presented by 40 authors. Text, tables and figures have been standardized for easy comparison.
New Scientist magazine was launched in 1956 "for all those men and women who are interested in scientific discovery, and in its industrial, commercial and social consequences". The brand's mission is no different today - for its consumers, New Scientist reports, explores and interprets the results of human endeavour set in the context of society and culture.
