Phanerozoic Diversity Patterns : : Profiles in Macroevolution / / J. Valentine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Valentine, J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Ausich, William I.,; Bambach, Richard K.,; Bottjer, David J.,; Carr, Timothy R.,; Clemens, W. A.,; Flessa, Karl W.,; Hardy, Margaret C,; Hulver, Michael L.,; Jablonski, David,; Kitchell, Jennifer A.,; Knoll, Andrew H.,; Miller, Arnold I.,; Niklas, Karl J.,; Padian, K.,; Sepkoski, J. John,; Signor, Philip W.,; Thomas, Richard H.,; Tiffney, Bruce H.,; Valentine, James W.,; Walker, Timothy Dane,; Ward, Peter D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series in Geology and Paleontology ; 44
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (454 p.)

Here twenty-one leading paleontologists use important refinements in fossil diversity data to provide critical evaluations of older hypotheses of diversification and extinction processes and to propose fresh interpretations.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Diversity As Data -- Part I. Phanerozoic Diversity Trends -- Chapter 1. An Atlas of Phanerozoic Clade Diversity Diagrams -- Chapter 2. Terrestrial Vertebrate Diversity: Episodes and Insights -- Chapter 3. Patterns in Vascular Land Plant Diversification: An Analysis at the Species Level -- Chapter 4. Real and Apparent Trends in Species Richness Through Time -- Part II. Patterns of Faunal Expansion, Partitioning and Replacement -- Chapter 5. Evolutionary Faunas and the Distribution of Paleozoic Marine Communities in Space and Time -- Chapter 6. Classes and Adaptive Variety: The Ecology of Diversification in Marine Faunas Through the Phanerozoic -- Chapter 7. Phanerozoic Tiering in Suspension-Feeding Communities on Soft Substrata: Implications for Diversity -- Part III. Analytic Studies of Major Faunal Patterns and Events -- Chapter 8. Nonequilibrium Model of Diversification: Faunal Turnover Dynamics -- Chapter 9. Diversification Functions and the Rate of Taxonomic Evolution -- Chapter 10. Marine Regressions and Mass Extinctions: A Test Using the Modern Biota -- Chapter 11. Modeling the Biogeographic Regulation of Evolutionary Rates -- Part IV. Diversity Profiles of Individual Clades -- Chapter 12. Testing for Adaptive Radiation: The Ptychaspid (Trilobita) Biomere of the Late Cambrian -- Chapter 13. Evolutionary Patterns Of Jurassic And Cretaceous Ammonites: An Analysis Of Clade Shape -- Chapter 14. Biotic Diversity and Clade Diversity -- Concluding Remark -- Author Index -- Subject Index