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Ward, Peter Douglas

Out of thin air dinosaurs, birds, and earth's ancient atmosphere Peter D. Ward - XIII, 282 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 24 cm

Literaturverz. S. 237 - 259 Respiration and the Body Plans of Animal Life -- Oxygen Through Time -- Evolving Respiratory Systems as a Cause of the Cambrian Explosion -- The Ordovician: Cambrian Explosion -- The Silurian-Devonian: How an Oxygen Spike Allowed the First Conquest of Land -- The Carboniferous-Early Permian: High-oxygen, Fires and Giants -- The Permian Extinction and the Evolution of Endothermy -- The Triassic Explosion -- The Jurassic: Dinosaur Hegemony in a Low-Oxygen World -- The Cretaceous Extinction and the Rise of Large Mammals -- Should We Fear the Oxygen Future?

Respiration and the Body Plans of Animal LifeOxygen Through Time -- Evolving Respiratory Systems as a Cause of the Cambrian Explosion -- The Ordovician: Cambrian Explosion -- The Silurian-Devonian: How an Oxygen Spike Allowed the First Conquest of Land -- The Carboniferous-Early Permian: High-oxygen, Fires and Giants -- The Permian Extinction and the Evolution of Endothermy -- The Triassic Explosion -- The Jurassic: Dinosaur Hegemony in a Low-Oxygen World -- The Cretaceous Extinction and the Rise of Large Mammals -- Should We Fear the Oxygen Future?.

ISBN: 0309100615 9780309100618

Standard No.: FGBA256919380

LCCN: 2006020396

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013-59080 UK GBA-69302 UK

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Paläobotanik
Paläozoologie
Aussterben
Dinosaurier
Evolution
Palökologie
Paläozoologie
Fossile Tiere
Paläobotanik
Dinosaurs--Extinction
Dinosaurs--Evolution
Paleoecology
Paleobotany--Carboniferous

Subjects--Index Terms: Dinosaurs Extinction Dinosaurs Evolution Paleoecology Paleobotany Carboniferous

LC Class. No.: QE861.6.E95

Dewey Class. No.: 567.9