This lecture note covers
vertebrate morphology, phylogeny, taxonomy, evolution, biomechanics,
biogeography, and paleoenvironments, and stratigraphic history, with lab
practicals that focus on osteology, functional interpretation, phylogenetic
reconstruction, functional morphometrics, scanning, and analysis of data sets.
This page covers the following topics
related to Biogeography : Terminal Paleocene Mass Extinction in the Deep Sea:
Association with Global Warming, Pollen Records of Late Quaternary Vegetation
Change: Plant Community Rearrangements and Evolutionary Implications, Impact of
Late Ordovician Glaciation-Deglaciation on Marine Life, Tropical Climate
Stability and Implications for the Distribution of Life, The Impact of Climatic
Changes on the Development of the Australian Flora, The Response of
Hierarchially Structured Ecosystems to Long-Term Climatic Change: A Case Study
using Tropical Peat Swamps of Pennsylvanian Age, The Late Cretaceous and
Cenozoic History of Vegetation and Climate at Northern and Southern High
Latitudes: A Comparison, Global Climatic Influence on Cenozoic Land Mammal
Faunas.
Author(s): National Research Council (US) Panel
on Effects of Past Global Change on Life
This book, gives you a
very interesting report and overview about the frontiers of such parts of recent
biogeographical research, which plays important roles in solving our most
pressing global problems.
The book focuses on
spatial and temporal variation of biological assemblages in relation to
landscape complexity and environmental change. This book is well illustrated
with numerous maps, graphics, and photographs, and contains much new basic
biogeographical information that is not available elsewhere. It will serve as an
invaluable reference for professionals and members of the public interested in
global biogeography, evolution, taxonomy, and conservation.
This note covers the following topics:
Biology and Hierarchies of Life, Physical Geography, hysical Environment: Light
and Temperature, Moisture, Biological Interactions, Climate change, Communities
and Biomes, Changing Climate, Changing Continents, Biodiversity.