The emerald planet : how plants changed Earth's history / David Beerling.
'The past, ' declared the celebrated palaeobotanist Albert Seward, 'seizes upon us with its shadowy hand and holds us to listen to its tale.'. This book is the tale of our world's past - and future - as revealed by plants. Newly found clues in the fossil record show plants t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2007.
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| Summary: | 'The past, ' declared the celebrated palaeobotanist Albert Seward, 'seizes upon us with its shadowy hand and holds us to listen to its tale.'. This book is the tale of our world's past - and future - as revealed by plants. Newly found clues in the fossil record show plants to be powerful agents of change, moulding the Earth's climate and affecting the evolutionary path of life over the immensity of geological time. They tell of how giant insects could once flourish, of an ancient ozone hole, and offer new explanations for past episodes of global warming. As we face the challenge of a changing c. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 288 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191513077 0191513075 9780192806024 0192806025 9781429470018 1429470011 9786611146870 6611146873 1281146870 9781281146878 0191916420 9780191916427 |