Events of Increased Biodiversity: Evolutionary Radiations in the Fossil Record

The fossil record offers a surprising image: that of evolutionary radiations characterized by intense increases in cash or by the sudden diversification of a single species group, while others stagnate or die out. In a modern world, science carries an often pessimistic message, surrounded by studies of global warming and its effects, extinction crisis, emerging diseases and invasive species. This book fuels frequent optimism of the sudden increase in biodiversity by exploring this natural phenomenon. Events of Increased Biodiversity: Evolutionary Radiations in the Fossil Record explores this natural phenomenon of adaptive radiation including its effect on the increase in biodiversity events, their contribution to the changes and limitations in the fossil record, and examines the links between ecology and paleontology's study of radiation. Details examples of evolutionary radiationsExplicitly addresses the effect of adaptation driven by ecological opportunityExamines the link between ecology and paleontology's study of adaptive radiation INDICE: The fossil recordThe evolutionary radiation phenomenonExamples of evolutionary radiationsThe contribution, limitations, and the links between ecology and paleontology in the study of radiation

• ISBN: 978-1-78548-029-4
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 152
• Fecha Publicación: 15/05/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés