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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's as advertised -- and exhaustive and exhausting
"Ecosystems" is 500+ pages, and could easily be expanded to ten times that. This is the first book I found to discuss all major life-bearing periods from an ecological standpoint. Minor nits: I wish at least a couple of periods had been treated in depth. The writing could be a bit crisper. And as a layman, I would have appreciated a glossary for some...
Published on June 28, 2000 by Tom L. Forest
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
SLOW AS MOLASSES
The slow and verbose plodding along of this book confirms that it was written by a gaggle of "collaborators", each one with a thesaurus in hand. The subject matter, which by itself is fascinating, was completely obfuscated by the writing. The illustrations are beautiful, few and far in between and completely non sequitur. Bibliography is excellent.
Published on February 19, 2009 by RETIRED FOR GOOD
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's as advertised -- and exhaustive and exhausting,
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This review is from: Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals (Paperback)
"Ecosystems" is 500+ pages, and could easily be expanded to ten times that. This is the first book I found to discuss all major life-bearing periods from an ecological standpoint. Minor nits: I wish at least a couple of periods had been treated in depth. The writing could be a bit crisper. And as a layman, I would have appreciated a glossary for some of the words that don't show up in my Webster's Unabridged.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Read!,
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This review is from: Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals (Paperback)
You may want to brush up on your palaeobotany before reading this book. I loved it! It was just what I had been looking for!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
SLOW AS MOLASSES,
By RETIRED FOR GOOD "TJ the Grouch" (Columbia, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals (Paperback)
The slow and verbose plodding along of this book confirms that it was written by a gaggle of "collaborators", each one with a thesaurus in hand. The subject matter, which by itself is fascinating, was completely obfuscated by the writing. The illustrations are beautiful, few and far in between and completely non sequitur. Bibliography is excellent.
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Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals by Hans-Dieter Sues (Paperback - August 15, 1992)
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