Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 Years of the Now Database of Fossil Mammals

Casanovas-Vilar, Isaac, Van Den Hoek Ostende, Lars W., Janis, Christine M.

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-08-10
  • 售價: $4,690
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 231
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031174933
  • ISBN-13: 9783031174933
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商品描述

This volume presents an array of different case studies which take as primary material data sourced from the NOW ('New and Old Worlds') database of fossil mammals. The NOW database was one of the very first large paleobiological databases, and since 1996 it has been expanded from including mainly Neogene European land mammals to cover the entire Cenozoic at a global scale. In the last two decades the number of works that are based in the use of huge databases to explore ecological and evolutionary questions has increased exponentially, and even though the importance of big data in paleobiological research has been outlined in selected chapters of general works, no volume has appeared before this one which solely focuses on the databases as a primary source in reconstructing the past. The purpose of this book is to provide an illustrative volume showing the importance of big data in paleobiological research, and presenting a broad array of unpublished examples and case studies. The book is mainly aimed to professional palaeobiologists working with Cenozoic land mammals, but the scope of the book is broad enough to fit the interest for evolutionary biologists, paleoclimatologists and paleoecologists.
The volume is divided in four parts. The first part includes two chapters on the development of large paleobiological databases, providing a first-hand account on the logic and the functioning of these databases. This is a much-needed perspective which is ignored by most researchers and users of such databases and, even if centered in the NOW database, the lessons that can be learned from this part can be extended to other examples. After this introductory part, the body of the book follows and is divided into three parts: patterns in regional faunas; large scale patterns and processes; and ecological, biogeographical and evolutionary patterns of key taxa. Each chapter is written by well-known specialists in the field, with some participation of members of the NOW advisory board. The array of selected mammal taxa ranges from carnivores, equids, ruminants and rodents to the genusHomo. The topics studied also include the diversification and radiation of major clades, large-scale paleobiogeographical patterns, the evolution of ecomorphological patterns and paleobiological problems such as evolution of body size or species longevity. In most cases the results are discussed in relation to protracted environmental or paleogeographic changes.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本卷呈現了一系列不同的案例研究,主要材料來自NOW(「新舊世界」)的化石哺乳動物數據庫。NOW數據庫是最早的大型古生物學數據庫之一,自1996年以來,該數據庫已從主要涵蓋新近紀的歐洲陸生哺乳動物擴展到全球整個新生代。在過去的二十年中,基於使用大型數據庫來探索生態和演化問題的研究數量呈指數增長,儘管在一些綜合性著作的選定章節中已經指出了大數據在古生物學研究中的重要性,但在此之前並未出現專注於數據庫作為重建過去主要來源的專著。本書的目的是提供一本插圖豐富的著作,展示大數據在古生物學研究中的重要性,並呈現一系列未發表的例子和案例研究。本書主要針對從事新生代陸生哺乳動物研究的專業古生物學家,但其範疇足夠廣泛,亦能引起演化生物學家、古氣候學家和古生態學家的興趣。

本卷分為四個部分。第一部分包括兩章,探討大型古生物學數據庫的發展,提供這些數據庫的邏輯和運作的第一手資料。這是一個急需的視角,卻被大多數研究人員和數據庫使用者所忽視,儘管以NOW數據庫為中心,但從這部分所學到的教訓可以擴展到其他例子。在這個介紹部分之後,書的主體分為三個部分:區域動物群的模式;大規模模式和過程;以及關鍵類群的生態、生物地理和演化模式。每章均由該領域的知名專家撰寫,並有NOW顧問委員會成員的參與。所選的哺乳動物類群範圍從食肉動物、馬科、反芻動物和囓齒動物到屬於Homo的物種。研究的主題還包括主要類群的多樣化和輻射、大規模古生物地理模式、環境形態模式的演化以及古生物學問題,如體型演化或物種壽命。在大多數情況下,結果是與持續的環境或古地理變化相關討論的。

作者簡介

Dr. Isaac Casanovas-Vilar is Head of the Paleoecology & Biochronology Research Group in the Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Paleontology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Dr. Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende is a Researcher for the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden.
Dr. Christine M. Janis is a Professor of Paleontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol.
Dr. Juha Saarinen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Division of Geosciences and Geography at the University of Helsinki.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

艾薩克·卡薩諾瓦斯-維拉博士是巴薩隆納自治大學米克爾·克魯薩豐特加泰隆研究所古生態學與生物年代學研究小組的負責人。拉斯·W·范登霍克·奧斯滕德博士是萊登自然歷史博物館的研究員。克里斯汀·M·雅尼斯博士是布里斯托大學地球科學系的古生物學教授。尤哈·薩里寧博士是赫爾辛基大學地球科學與地理學部的博士後研究員。