Climate Change and Life
The Complex Co-evolution of Climate and Life on Earth, and Beyond
Published on 16. November 2022
284 pages
978-0-12-823278-1 (ISBN)
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Approx.276 pages
- Examines the link between climate change and extinctions in the geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
- Explores the concept of ecological resilience, the principal reason why the Earth has remained continuously inhabited by organisms for almost four billion years
- Discusses how the ongoing influences of climate change will continue to shape a planet that will head toward extremes
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Gabriel M. Filippelli
Climate Change and Life
The Complex Co-evolution of Climate and Life on Earth, and Beyond
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11/2022
Elsevier
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Content
I. Earth over the past 4.5 billion years-a brief historyII. Climate drivers on EarthIII. Early Earth as a cradle for lifeIV. Oxygen accumulation and the first major life-climate interactionsV. The not-so-boring billionVI. Snowball Earth and the most extreme climate states that the Earth has experiencedVII. Emergence of land plants and the formation of the Earth's Critical ZoneVIII. Massive extinction drivers and climate impactsIX. From Greenhouse to Ice-House: the co-evolution of life and climate through the CenozoicX. Climate and Humans
