Palaeontology

Ostracod crustaceans, common microfossils in marine and freshwater sedimentary records, supply evidence of past climatic conditions via indicator species, transfer function and mutual climatic range approaches as well as the trace element and stable isotope geochemistry of their shells.

With this collection of essays, Anthony J.

We review using iodine incorporated in calcium carbonate (including biogenic) minerals as a proxy for dissolved oxygen in seawater.

Wild Life documents a nuanced understanding of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation.

Fossils provide us with a tantalizing glimpse of Britain's prehistoric past and hold the key to unlocking the secrets of life's history and evolution.

Cuvier reconstituait un squelette à partir d’une dent.

This illustrated introduction to Central American Chironomidae offers extensive photographic material, as well as detailed morphological and ecological descriptions of chironomid subfossils found in Central American lake sediments.

This volume 2 and its companion volume 1 present the results of new investigations into the geology, paleontology and paleoecology of the early hominin site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania.

Relatively, a new discipline, Paleontology is the study of ancient Life forms that have inhabited our earth, and of the fossils that remain behind.

Outlines strategies for lecturers to implement a flipped classroom to provide students with opportunities for active learning.

Our knowledge of extinct animals depends almost entirely upon the study of fossils.

Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines.

PALEOECOLOGY PALEOECOLOGYPast, Present and Future Paleoecology is a discipline that uses evidence from fossils to provide an understanding of ancient environments and the ecological history of life through geological time.

Any inference drawn from plain remains recovered from archaeological sites is based on the classes of such remains that are, at present, possible to identify.

The first detailed collation of the evolution, ecology and conservation of some of South America''s least-known, and most endangered, primates.

This book provides practical morphological information, together with detailed illustrations and brief explanatory texts.

Paul Tournal fut un touche-à-tout de génie.

An authoritative study of extinction in birds, with case studies of 20 critically endangered species and the research initiatives designed to save them.

« Voici, après Pré-ambules, ou les premiers pas de l’homme, Pré-textes, ou l’homme préhistorique en morceaux.

A beautifully illustrated 2007 volume describing the unique fossils of the Crato Formation of Brazil.

This book provides a comprehensive, detailed, and coherent spatio-temporal account of Caribbean mangrove evolution from its evolutionary origins to the present that is not available for any mangrove region in the world.

Biogeography considers the distribution of biological units over a wide range of scales.

This book provides essential information on 12 cockroach assemblages with more than a thousand specimens analyzed and investigates the Jurassic site in Bakhar, Mongolia, as one of the most diverse fossil insect sites worldwide.

Offers a practical guide for the non-specialist on studying and learning from plant fossils to understand the evolution of vegetation on Earth.

This volume sheds new light on the marine fauna and geological setting of the Tjornes Sequence, North Iceland, which is a classic site for the Pliocene and Pleistocene stratigraphy of the North Atlantic region.

Que nous dirait une femme de Neandertal si elle revenait dans notre monde d’aujourd’hui ?

This volume is a compilation of papers of the final meeting of the IGCP Project 201, Quaternary of South America.

The study of palaeoweathering provides vital clues about past continental environments, the correlation of sedimentary deposits and processes such as the rate and timing of uplift and erosion.

Owls have always featured prominently in the mythology and folklore of a variety of cultures.

The main prospects for expanding the mineral resource base of gold are associated with the discovery of typical ore objects within the distribution of productive black shale strata in the Orenburg part of the Southern Urals.

Foraminiferal Micropaleontology for Understanding Earth's History incorporates new findings on taxonomy, classification and biostratigraphy of foraminifera.

The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences.

Though the pygmy hippopotamus has been designated as a flagship species of West African forests (meaning that by raising conservation efforts for a single species, an entire ecological region could benefit), very little research has been published on the animal.

This book is the first to provide balanced examination of both pediatric liver disease and liver transplantation - two topics that are inherently related, given that most chronic liver disorders eventually require organ replacement.

This book provides an update on the phylogeny, systematics and ecology of horses in South America based on data provided over the past three decades.

This Element summarizes decades of research concerning the respiratory structures of Paleozoic blastozoan echinoderms.

The bonobo, along with the chimpanzee, is one of our two closest living relatives.

"e;This kit provides hands-on and minds-on experiences with a dozen threatened animals from land and sea.

Fungi are ubiquitous in the world and responsible for driving the evolution and governing the sustainability of ecosystems now and in the past.

This book summarizes the evolution of carnivorous mammals in the Cenozoic of South America.

Georgia's territory represents a real "e;natural geological laboratory,"e; exposing magmatic, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, ranging from the Neoproterozoic to the Quaternary.

all such systems are important, the Proterozoic column This volume concerns the geology of China, and it examinesthat concern by expositionsofthe stratigraphy, possibly is unique in its continuous sedimentary devel- the paleogeography,and the tectonics ofthat remarkable opment and in its reference section of global rank.

"e;This kit provides hands-on and minds-on experiences with a dozen threatened animals from land and sea.

Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale.

This book broadens the reader's knowledge base on lithofacies distribution, facies succession and association, and interpretation of paleo-depositional environments using outcrop-based and measured se dimentologic section data integrated with facies and petrographic analyses.

Originally published in 1933 Functional Affinities of Man, Monkeys and Apes gives a taxonomic and phylogenetic survey and the findings of diverse experimental investigations of lemurs, monkeys, and apes.

A study of the evolution of flowering plants, from their earliest phases in obscurity to their dominance in modern vegetation.