Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals
Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals
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DOI：
10.5860/choice.30-4391
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发表时间：
1992-08
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
K. Padian;A. Behrensmeyer;J. Damuth;W. DiMichele;R. Potts;H. Sues;S. Wing
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作者：
K. Padian;A. Behrensmeyer;J. Damuth;W. DiMichele;R. Potts;H. Sues;S. Wing
这是对陆地生命整个生态历史的首次调查——从四亿多年前陆地生物的最早痕迹到人类农业的开始。通过提供对化石记录中包含的独特生态信息的无数见解，它为研究陆地生态系统的进化古生态学奠定了一个新的、雄心勃勃的基础。本书由美国国家自然历史博物馆陆地生态系统演化联盟、史密森尼学会和另外 26 位研究人员联合完成，以四章开头，阐述了进化古生态学的理论背景和方法论。其中包括对化石沉积物的埋藏学和古环境背景的全面审查，以及开发灭绝生物及其居住群落的生态特征的指南。其余三章通过地质时间来探讨陆地生态系统的历史，强调生态相互作用如何变化、生态系统变化的速率和节奏、外源“强迫因素”在产生生态变化中的作用，以及生态因素对生物多样性演化的影响。本书的六位主要作者均与史密森学会国家自然历史博物馆的陆地生态系统演化项目相关。
Breathtaking in scope, this is the first survey of the entire ecological history of life on land--from the earliest traces of terrestrial organisms over 400 million years ago to the beginning of human agriculture. By providing myriad insights into the unique ecological information contained in the fossil record, it establishes a new and ambitious basis for the study of evolutionary paleoecology of land ecosystems. A joint undertaking of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and twenty-six additional researchers, this book begins with four chapters that lay out the theoretical background and methodology of the science of evolutionary paleoecology. Included are a comprehensive review of the taphonomy and paleoenvironmental settings of fossil deposits as well as guidelines for developing ecological characterizations of extinct organisms and the communities in which they lived. The remaining three chapters treat the history of terrestrial ecosystems through geological time, emphasizing how ecological interactions have changed, the rate and tempo of ecosystem change, the role of exogenous "forcing factors" in generating ecological change, and the effect of ecological factors on the evolution of biological diversity. The six principal authors of this volume are all associated with the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems program at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.