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The emerald planet : how plants changed Earth's history / David Beerling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beerling, D. J.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plants, Fossil.
- Plants--Evolution.
- Plants.
- Paleobotany.
- Paleoecology.
- Paleoclimatology.
- Historical geology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- '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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-191642-0
- 1-281-14687-0
- 9786611146870
- 0-19-151307-5
- 1-4294-7001-1
- OCLC:
- 137238581
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