附註:"[Results of] 2001 Lyell Meeting ... entitled Palaeobiogeography and Biodiversity Change ... held at Burlington House on 21 February 2001"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Palaeobiogeography and the Ordovician and Mesozoic-Cenozoic biotic radiations / A.W. Owen & J.A. Crame -- Brachiopods : Cambrian-Tremadoc precursors to Ordovician radiation events / M.G. Bassett, L.E. Popov & L.E. Holmer -- Early Ordovician rhynchonelliformean brachiopod biodiversity : comparing some platforms, margins and intra-oceanic sites around the Iapetus Ocean / D.A.T. Harper & C. Mac Niocaill -- Diversification and biogeography of bivalves during the Ordovician period / J.C.W. Cope -- Phylogeny of the Reedocalymeninae (Trilobita) : implications for early Ordovician biogeography of Gondwana / S.T. Turvey -- The spatial and temporal diversification of early Palaeozoic vertebrates / M.P. Smith, P.C.J. Donoghue & I.J. Sansom -- Euconodont diversity changes in a cooling and closing Iapetus Ocean / H.A. Armstrong & A.W. Owen -- The role of pyroclastic volcanism in Ordovician diversification / J.P. Botting -- The early evolution and palaeobiogeography of Mesozoic planktonic foraminifera / M.B. Hart, M.J. Oxford & W. Hudson -- Opening of the Hispanic Corridor and early Jurassic bivalve biodiversity / M. Aberhan -- Cretaceous patterns of floristic change in the Antarctic Peninsula / D.J. Cantrill & I. Poole -- Cenozoic palaeogeography and the rise of modern biodiversity patterns / J.A. Crame & B.R. Rosen -- Palaeontological databases for palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology and biodiversity : a question of scale / P.J. Markwick & R. Lupia -- Integrating the present and past records of climate, biodiversity and biogeography : implications for palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology / P.J. Markwick.
摘要:The study of biodiversity through geological time provides important information for the understanding of diversity patterns at the present day. These papers illustrate many aspects of the two great episodes of biotic radiation and show how long periods of time and plate tectonic movements have a fundamental influence on the generation and maintenance of major extant biodiversity patterns.
