TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beerling,D.J.
TI  - Emerald planet: How plants changed Earth's history 
T2  - Oxford landmark science
SN  - 9780198798323
U1  - 551.71 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Oxford 
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Plants, Fossil
KW  - Plants
KW  - Plant-atmosphere relationships
KW  - Paleobotany
KW  - Paleoclimatology
KW  - Historical geology
N1  - "Revised impression, as Oxford Landmark Science 2017"--Title page verso; Originally published: 2007; Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-370) and index; Leaves, genes, and greenhouse gases -- Oxygen and the lost world of giants -- An ancient ozone catastrophe? -- Global warming ushers in the dinosaur era -- The flourishing forests of Antarctica -- Paradise lost -- Nature's green revolution -- Through a glass darkly
N2  - 'The Emerald Planet' reveals the crucial role that plants have played in driving & recording climatic change. The book provides an important perspective on the controversial & crucial subject of global warming - for we can only understand climate change by looking into the distant past, long before the rise of humankind --
ER  -