Plant Community History Long-term changes in plant distribution and diversity.

This a global overview of vegetational changes in response to large-scale environmental changes, particularly climate, in the last 65 million years. The book looks at the plant changes in temperate, tropical and polar regions, both in spatial terms and the make-up of the communities. It constitutes an invaluable summary by a leading plant ecologist of the knowledge gained in recent years from such disciplines as palynology, climatology, geophysics and oceanography.

ISBN: 9780412303203