Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle Pleistocene

The Porcupine Cave Fauna from Colorado

Buch | Hardcover

407 Seiten

2004
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-24082-7 (ISBN)

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This book chronicles the discovery and analysis of animal fossils found in one of the most important paleontological sites in the world - Porcupine Cave, located at an elevation of 9,500 feet in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. With tens of thousands of identified specimens, this site has become the key source of information on the fauna of North America's higher elevations between approximately 1 million and 600,000 years ago, a period that saw the advance and retreat of glaciers numerous times. Until now, little has been understood about how this dramatic climate change affected life during the middle Pleistocene. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art data from Porcupine Cave, this study also presents groundbreaking analysis on what the data from the site show about the evolutionary and ecological adjustments that occurred in this period, shedding light on how one of the world's most pressing environmental concerns - global climate change - can influence life on earth.

Anthony D. Barnosky is Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor, with R. A. Martin, of Morphological Change in Quaternary Mammals of North America (1993).

Preface Acknowledgments List of Chapter Appendixes List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations and Definitions I. The Discovery and Distribution of Fossils II. Systematic Accounts of Taxa III. Effect of Environmental Change on the Porcupine Cave Fauna Literature Cited List of Contributors Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.8.2004
Zusatzinfo	47 b/w photographs, 81 line illustrations, 58 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	1361 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
ISBN-10	0-520-24082-0 / 0520240820
ISBN-13	978-0-520-24082-7 / 9780520240827
Zustand	Neuware