Author: Ben A. LePage
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402027648
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The plant fossil record indicates that the genus Metasequoia was widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the early Late Cretaceous to the Plio-Pleistocene. Today the genus has shrunk to one species with approximately 5,000 mature individuals in southeastern China’s Xiahoe Valley. This book distills the current understanding of the biology, ecology and physiology of fossil and living Metasequoia, current research directions and problems that remain unresolved.
The Geobiology and Ecology of Metasequoia
Author: Ben A. LePage
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402027648
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The plant fossil record indicates that the genus Metasequoia was widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the early Late Cretaceous to the Plio-Pleistocene. Today the genus has shrunk to one species with approximately 5,000 mature individuals in southeastern China’s Xiahoe Valley. This book distills the current understanding of the biology, ecology and physiology of fossil and living Metasequoia, current research directions and problems that remain unresolved.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402027648
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The plant fossil record indicates that the genus Metasequoia was widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the early Late Cretaceous to the Plio-Pleistocene. Today the genus has shrunk to one species with approximately 5,000 mature individuals in southeastern China’s Xiahoe Valley. This book distills the current understanding of the biology, ecology and physiology of fossil and living Metasequoia, current research directions and problems that remain unresolved.
The Geobiology and Ecology of Metasequoia
Author: Ben A. LePage
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402026317
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The plant fossil record indicates that the genus Metasequoia was widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the early Late Cretaceous to the Plio-Pleistocene. Today the genus has shrunk to one species with approximately 5,000 mature individuals in southeastern China’s Xiahoe Valley. This book distills the current understanding of the biology, ecology and physiology of fossil and living Metasequoia, current research directions and problems that remain unresolved.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402026317
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The plant fossil record indicates that the genus Metasequoia was widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the early Late Cretaceous to the Plio-Pleistocene. Today the genus has shrunk to one species with approximately 5,000 mature individuals in southeastern China’s Xiahoe Valley. This book distills the current understanding of the biology, ecology and physiology of fossil and living Metasequoia, current research directions and problems that remain unresolved.
The Plants of China
Author: De-Yuan Hong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107070171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
A unique addition to the botanical literature, this book presents the flora of China in its astonishing diversity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107070171
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
A unique addition to the botanical literature, this book presents the flora of China in its astonishing diversity.
Neoproterozoic Geobiology and Paleobiology
Author: Shuhai Xiao
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402052022
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This volume presents a sample of views and visions among some of the growing numbers of Neoproterozoic workers. It includes a set of multidisciplinary reviews on the Neoproterozoic fossil record, evolutionary developmental biology of animals, and molecular clock estimates of phylogenetic divergences. These topics are of continuing interest to geoscientists and bioscientists who are intrigued by the deep history of the Earth and its inhabitants.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402052022
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This volume presents a sample of views and visions among some of the growing numbers of Neoproterozoic workers. It includes a set of multidisciplinary reviews on the Neoproterozoic fossil record, evolutionary developmental biology of animals, and molecular clock estimates of phylogenetic divergences. These topics are of continuing interest to geoscientists and bioscientists who are intrigued by the deep history of the Earth and its inhabitants.
Forest Soil Respiration under Climate Changing
Author: Robert Jandl
Publisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3038971782
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Forest Soil Respiration under Climate Changing" that was published in Forests
Publisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3038971782
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Forest Soil Respiration under Climate Changing" that was published in Forests
Elderflora
Author: Jared Farmer
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465097855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation accompanied sanctification, as old-growth forests succumbed to imperial expansion and the industrial revolution. Taking us from Lebanon to New Zealand to California, Farmer surveys the complex history of the world’s oldest trees, including voices of Indigenous peoples, religious figures, and contemporary scientists who study elderflora in crisis. In a changing climate, a long future is still possible, Farmer shows, but only if we give care to young things that might grow old.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465097855
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists to protect sacred groves. Exploitation accompanied sanctification, as old-growth forests succumbed to imperial expansion and the industrial revolution. Taking us from Lebanon to New Zealand to California, Farmer surveys the complex history of the world’s oldest trees, including voices of Indigenous peoples, religious figures, and contemporary scientists who study elderflora in crisis. In a changing climate, a long future is still possible, Farmer shows, but only if we give care to young things that might grow old.
Climate, Planetary and Evolutionary Sciences
Author: Guido Visconti
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030747131
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content. Questions and related keywords were prepared for the machine to query, discover, collate and structure by Artificial Intelligence (AI) clustering. The AI-based approach seemed especially suitable to provide an innovative perspective as the topics are indeed both complex, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, for example, climate, planetary and evolution sciences. Springer Nature has published much on these topics in its journals over the years, so the challenge was for the machine to identify the most relevant content and present it in a structured way that the reader would find useful. The automatically generated literature summaries in this book are intended as a springboard to further discoverability. They are particularly useful to readers with limited time, looking to learn more about the subject quickly and especially if they are new to the topics. Springer Nature seeks to support anyone who needs a fast and effective start in their content discovery journey, from the undergraduate student exploring interdisciplinary content, to Master- or PhD-thesis developing research questions, to the practitioner seeking support materials, this book can serve as an inspiration, to name a few examples. It is important to us as a publisher to make the advances in technology easily accessible to our authors and find new ways of AI-based author services that allow human-machine interaction to generate readable, usable, collated, research content.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030747131
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content. Questions and related keywords were prepared for the machine to query, discover, collate and structure by Artificial Intelligence (AI) clustering. The AI-based approach seemed especially suitable to provide an innovative perspective as the topics are indeed both complex, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, for example, climate, planetary and evolution sciences. Springer Nature has published much on these topics in its journals over the years, so the challenge was for the machine to identify the most relevant content and present it in a structured way that the reader would find useful. The automatically generated literature summaries in this book are intended as a springboard to further discoverability. They are particularly useful to readers with limited time, looking to learn more about the subject quickly and especially if they are new to the topics. Springer Nature seeks to support anyone who needs a fast and effective start in their content discovery journey, from the undergraduate student exploring interdisciplinary content, to Master- or PhD-thesis developing research questions, to the practitioner seeking support materials, this book can serve as an inspiration, to name a few examples. It is important to us as a publisher to make the advances in technology easily accessible to our authors and find new ways of AI-based author services that allow human-machine interaction to generate readable, usable, collated, research content.
Rooted in Time
Author: Carole T. Gee
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421449382
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"This work showcases 17 groups of plants, and is complemented with photos and specially rendered illustrations"--
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421449382
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"This work showcases 17 groups of plants, and is complemented with photos and specially rendered illustrations"--
The Subtropical Vegetation of Southwestern China
Author: Cindy Q. Tang
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401797412
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This book provides a wealth of high-quality scientific information on the patterns and processes of vegetation change across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales, concentrating on Southwestern China, mostly on the Yunnan region, and extending to the Yangtze River valley near the boundaries separating Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401797412
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This book provides a wealth of high-quality scientific information on the patterns and processes of vegetation change across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales, concentrating on Southwestern China, mostly on the Yunnan region, and extending to the Yangtze River valley near the boundaries separating Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou.
Biopolymers
Author: Neal S. Gupta
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9400779364
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book provides an overview, research compendium and an introduction to the science of molecular paleontology, including literature overview for non-geochemists. Analytical methods employed are included as a part of each chapter that underpin this branch of paleontology and indeed geochemistry. The primary usefulness of this volume is for organic geochemists, molecular palaeontologists, and molecular archeologists. Researchers, graduate students and academics interested in astrobiology from a paleontological perspective may also find this to be valuable.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9400779364
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book provides an overview, research compendium and an introduction to the science of molecular paleontology, including literature overview for non-geochemists. Analytical methods employed are included as a part of each chapter that underpin this branch of paleontology and indeed geochemistry. The primary usefulness of this volume is for organic geochemists, molecular palaeontologists, and molecular archeologists. Researchers, graduate students and academics interested in astrobiology from a paleontological perspective may also find this to be valuable.