Plant Community History: Long-term changes in plant distribution and diversity / Edition 1

by J.H. Tallis

Overview

A knowledge of how plants have responded to environmental change in the past is our principal source of evidence for predicting how they might respond to the new environments of the future and a knowledge of past climates may enable us to assess more clearly the human contribution to the climatic changes of the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780412303203
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	11/30/1990
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	398
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.04(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

I would use Plant Community History as a textbook in a course on Cenozoic vegetation history,... [a] welcome and important addition to the literature of natural history. - TREE; Tallis has made a thorough and far reaching analysis of a very extensive volume of literature to put this book togetherm but at the same time has integrated the history of the earth's vegetation in a scholarly yet readable manner. - Biologist; I shall certainly recommend this book to any undergraduates showing more than a passing interest in palaeonecology and, of course, to postgraduate students... - New Phytologist

From the Publisher

Tallis shows that current alterations in plant habitats have precedents, and an understanding of past changes will aid in managing the world's resources. He gives an overview of global vegetation changes due to environmental shifts during the last 65 million years, covering aspects of plant diversity from the Tertiary through the present in forest, dryland, tropical, and boreal vegetational communities. Illustrated with maps, charts, and diagrams--offering a summary of knowledge gained in the last two decades in palynology, climatology, geophysics, and oceanography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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