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Plant Community History
J.H. Tallis
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Description for Plant Community History
Hardback. Aims to present the results of investigations into the history of the world's plant cover over the last 65 million years, not the methods by which these results have been obtained, and to document a selection of published accounts, both specific and general, for further reading. Num Pages: 408 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 752.
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. This book aims to present the results of investigations into the history of the world's plant cover over the last 65 million years, not the methods by which these results have been achieved, and to document a selection of published accounts, both general and specific, ... Read more
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. This book aims to present the results of investigations into the history of the world's plant cover over the last 65 million years, not the methods by which these results have been achieved, and to document a selection of published accounts, both general and specific, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Chapman and Hall United Kingdom
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
398
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780412303203
SKU
V9780412303203
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Plant Community History
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 ... Read more