The emerald planet : how plants changed Earth's history /

'The Emerald Planet' reveals the crucial role that plants have played in driving & recording climatic change. The book provides an important perspective on the controversial & crucial subject of global warming - for we can only understand climate change by looking into the distant...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beerling, D. J.
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford landmark science
Subjects:
Plants, Fossil.
Plants
Plant-atmosphere relationships.
Paleobotany.
Paleoclimatology.
Historical geology.
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260 |a Oxford   |b Oxford University Press  |c 2007 
300 |a xxiv, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  |b illustrations ; 
490 1 |a Oxford landmark science 
500 |a "Revised impression, as Oxford Landmark Science 2017"--Title page verso. 
500 |a Originally published: 2007. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-370) and index. 
505 0 |a Leaves, genes, and greenhouse gases -- Oxygen and the lost world of giants -- An ancient ozone catastrophe? -- Global warming ushers in the dinosaur era -- The flourishing forests of Antarctica -- Paradise lost -- Nature's green revolution -- Through a glass darkly. 
520 |a 'The Emerald Planet' reveals the crucial role that plants have played in driving & recording climatic change. The book provides an important perspective on the controversial & crucial subject of global warming - for we can only understand climate change by looking into the distant past, long before the rise of humankind -- 
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650 0 |a Plants 
650 0 |a Plant-atmosphere relationships. 
650 0 |a Paleobotany. 
650 0 |a Paleoclimatology. 
650 0 |a Historical geology. 
650 7 |a Historical geology. 
650 7 |a Paleobotany. 
650 7 |a Paleoclimatology. 
650 7 |a Plant-atmosphere relationships. 
650 7 |a Plants 
650 7 |a Plants, Fossil. 
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