Numerical Palaeobiology: Computer-Based Modelling and Analysis of Fossils and Their Distributions - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0471974056 ISBN 13: 9780471974055

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1999

Riassunto

Computergestützte Verfahren haben die Methoden paläontologischer Forschung in den vergangenen Jahren radikal geändert: Software zur Auswertung verschiedenster Datensätze und zur Behandlung eines breiten Spektrums von Problemen steht zur Verfügung. Was bisher fehlte, war ein übersichtliches Handbuch, das alle diese Ansätze zusammenfassend erklärt. Diese Lücke ist jetzt geschlossen: Praxisnah erläutern die Autoren dieser Monographie Rechen- und Modellierungsmethoden zur Untersuchung von Fossilien und erdgeschichtlichen Ökologien. In vielen Fällen wird auf geeignete kommerzielle Software hingewiesen.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David A.T. Harper is a British palaeontologist, specialising in fossil brachiopods and numerical methods in palaeontology. He is Professor of Palaeontology in Earth Sciences, Principal of Van Mildert College, and Deputy Head of Colleges in Durham University.

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Microcomputers have become an everyday part of the palaeobiologists tool-kit. Moreover, there is now a wide range of computer software available to handle all sorts of palaeontological data and problems. This book, aimed at final year undergraduates, graduate students and professional palaeontologists, biologists and geologists, brings together the many strands of contemporary palaeontology through the medium of numeracy. It provides a comprehensive review, with applications, of the many computer based techniques available for the analysis and modelling of palaeontological data. The first part of the book covers classical phenetic taxonomy through cladistics and the computer-generated reconstructions of fossils to actual models for fossil growth. This leads onto distribution analysis and modelling of fossils in time and space. Detailed stratigraphical distributions of fossils are described in quantitative terms together with the larger-scale patterns in the history of life itself, while palaeoecology, palynofacies, trace fossils and palaeogeography are all introduced through a spectrum of numerical algorithms. The majority of the studies are linked to specific software packages and many are illustrated with case histories. Although there are a number of books available on computer modelling and data analysis in geology, no study has integrated the two with such a range of palaeontological subject material.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0471974056
• ISBN 13: 9780471974055
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 468
• Redattore: Harper David A. T.
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