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National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Terrestrial Palaeoecology and Global Change
This book critically evaluates the currently popular ideas of global change based on the plate tectonics, extraterrestrial impacts, greenhouse warming, etc. and offers alternative models. Krassilov presents ecosystem evolution as a sustainability oriented process with an increase in the biomass-to-dead mass ratio as a measure of progress. This general tendency is reversed by the geobiospheric crises starting in the earths interior and surfacing as the concerted geomagnetic, tectonomagmatic, geochemical and climatic events. These affect biota through turnovers of biotic communities and the adequate changes in population adaptive strategies, a major force under the species originations and ext...
