Environmental biology the conditions of life : environmental selection, extinction, creation, adaptation and overpopulation
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| Main Author | |
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| Format | eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Enfield, N.H. :
Science Publishers,
c2009.
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| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781439843536 |
| Physical Description | xvi, 375 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Overview
- 2. Retrospective
- 3. Beyond ancient history
- 4. The atmosphere
- 5. Milankovitch cycle(s)
- 6. Climate
- 7. Major environmental extinction events
- 8. Extinction events initiate change
- 9. Chicken Little was right
- 10. Fire down below
- 11. Constant extinction
- 12. Ecological succession
- 13. Extinction event significance
- 14. Environmental extinction and environmental creation
- 15. Environmental creation significance
- 16. The rest of the story
- 17. Environmentally AND genetically determined evolution
- 18. Alone
- 19. Genetic perspective
- 20. Genotype and phenotype
- 21. Alleles
- 22. Mutation
- 23. Phenotype and environment
- 24. Genetic constraint
- 25. Genetic variation
- 26. Environmental adaptation
- 27. A foundation of modern evolutionary biology
- 28. Difficulties on theory
- 29. Environmentally-determined evolution?
- 30. Macroevolution and microevolution
- 31. Philosophy of genetic mechanisms
- 32. Biochemistry of genetic mechanisms
- 33. Primary production
- 34. Respiration
- 35. Ecosystem energy flow
- 36. Common ground
- 37. Biodiversity
- 38. Habitat diversity
- 39. Overpopulation
- 40. Humanity
- 41. Do the math
- 42. The ongoing losses
- 43. A choice
- 44. Epilogue
- 45. Environment and evolution questions
- 46. Human population and resource questions.