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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:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.