Mammalian Paleoecology Using the Past to Study the Present
"This book provides an overview of how we obtain information from long-dead mammals and explains what this information can tell us of relevance to ongoing pressing environmental issues"--
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| Формат: | Электронная книга |
| Язык: | English |
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2021.
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| Серии: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online-ссылка: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2968586.pdf Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Оглавление:
- Old bones, footprints, and trace evidence of life
- Taphonomy : putting the dead to work
- Determining age and context
- On being the right size
- Show me your teeth and I will tell you what you are
- Stable isotopes and the reconstruction of mammalian movement, diet and trophic relationships
- Non-traditional 'fossils'
- Reconstructing past climate
- The past as prologue : the importance of a deeper temporal perspective in climate change research
- Biodiversity on Earth.