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Breathtaking in scope, this is the first survey of the entire ecological history of life on land--from the earliest traces of terrestrial organisms over 400 million years ago to the beginning of human agriculture. By providing myriad insights into the unique ecological information contained in the fossil record, it establishes a new and ambitious basis for the study of evolutionary paleoecology of land ecosystems. A joint undertaking of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Consortium at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and twenty-six additional researchers, this book begins with four chapters that lay out the theoretical background and methodology of the science of evolutionary paleoecology. Included are a comprehensive review of the taphonomy and paleoenvironmental settings of fossil deposits as well as guidelines for developing ecological characterizations of extinct organisms and the communities in which they lived. The remaining three chapters treat the history of terrestrial ecosystems through geological time, emphasizing how ecological interactions have changed, the rate and tempo of ecosystem change, the role of exogenous "forcing factors" in generating ecological change, and the effect of ecological factors on the evolution of biological diversity. The six principal authors of this volume are all associated with the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems program at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Evolution. Phylogeny --- General ecology and biosociology --- General palaeontology --- Paleo-ecologie --- Paleobiologie --- Paleobiology --- Paleoecology --- Paléobiologie --- Paléoécologie --- Evolutionary paleoecology. --- Paleoecology. --- Paleobiology. --- Evolutionary paleoecology --- Evolutionary paleobiology

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Agricultural ecology --- Agriculture--Ecologie --- Agriculture--Ecology --- Ecologie agricole --- Landbouw en ecologie --- Landbouw--Ecologie --- Paleo-ecologie --- Paleoecology --- Paléoécologie --- Human beings --- Influence on nature --- Biotic communities --- History --- Landscape changes --- Landscape changes - History.

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Climates [Glacial ] --- Climats glaciaires --- Eiszeitalter --- Eiszeiten --- Englacement --- Englaciation --- Glaciaire [Période ] --- Glacial climates --- Glacial epoch --- Glaciale perioden --- Glacials --- Glaciation --- Glaciations --- Ice age --- Ijstijd --- Ijstijden --- Ijstijdvakken --- Paleo-ecologie --- Paleoecology --- Paléoécologie --- Période glaciaire --- Périodes glaciaires --- Âge glaciaire --- Époque glaciaire --- Époques glaciaires --- 551.33 --- Climates, Glacial --- Paleoclimatology --- Palaeoecology --- Ecology --- Paleobiology --- Ice Age --- Geology, Stratigraphic --- Glacial geology --- 551.33 Glacial geology

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Environmental archaeology --- Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Paleontology --- Archéologie de l'environnement --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Restes de plantes (Archéologie) --- Paléontologie --- Periodicals --- Methodology --- Périodiques. --- Méthodologie --- Périodiques --- Archéozoologie --- Paléoécologie --- Paleo-ecologie. --- Archeologie. --- Archeology --- Environmental archaeology. --- Archaeobotanical assemblages --- Archaeobotanical material --- Archaeobotanical remains --- Archaeobotany --- Archaeological plant remains --- Archaeology, Botanical --- Assemblages, Archaeobotanical --- Botanical archaeology --- Botany in archaeology --- Material, Archaeobotanical --- Phytoarchaeology --- Remains, Archaeobotanical --- Remains, Plant (Archaeology) --- Remains, Vegetal (Archaeology) --- Vegetal remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Paleobotany --- Anthracology --- Archaeology, Environmental --- Archaeozoology --- Zooarchaeology --- Zoology in archaeology --- Bones --- Animal paleopathology --- Paleoecology --- Palaeoecology --- Ecology --- Paleobiology --- Paleoecology.

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This book provides a major synthesis of evidence for past climate variability at the regional and continental scale across Europe and Africa. It focuses on two complementary time-scales, the Holocene (approximately the last 11,500 years) and the last glacial-interglacial cycle (approximately the last 130,000 years). An overview of the climate system of the past has never been attempted before on this scale, and, as such, the volume represents a benchmark for future research. It is written by an expert group of climate change scientists and presents an insight into past climate variability that challenges climatologists who seek to explain climate dynamics of the past and provides climate modellers with a work of reference for data-model comparison. The book is an advanced but very readable text essential for all students and scientists interested in global environmental change.

Climatic changes --- Paleoclimatology --- Climat --- Paléoclimatologie --- Changements --- Paleoclimatology. --- Klimaatveranderingen. --- Paleo-ecologie. --- Meteorology & Climatology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Paléoclimatologie --- Geologic climate --- Palaeoclimatology --- Paleoclimate --- Climatology --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Environmental aspects --- Climate change. --- Geoecology. --- Environmental geology. --- Paleontology . --- Earth sciences. --- Climate Change. --- Geoecology/Natural Processes. --- Paleontology. --- Earth Sciences, general. --- Geosciences --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences --- Fossilogy --- Fossilology --- Palaeontology --- Paleontology, Zoological --- Paleozoology --- Historical geology --- Zoology --- Fossils --- Prehistoric animals in motion pictures --- Geoecology --- Environmental protection --- Physical geology --- Global environmental change --- Climatic changes - Europe --- Climatic changes - Africa --- Paleoclimatology - Europe --- Paleoclimatology - Africa --- Climatic changes.