Marine Paleobiodiversity presents a concise history, development and current status of paleobiodiversity research, thus forming a reference work for beginners, graduates and postgraduates, who are interested in this subject and intend venture into serious research. This book provides a link-reference between text book and highly-specialized journal articles, and so will be valuable for a wide audience of geologists and climatologists.

PrefaceAcknowledgments1. INTRODUCTION2. RATIONALE 3. BIODIVERSITY AND HABITAT IN THE GEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE4. METHODS OF BIODIVERSITY AND HABITAT HETEROGENEITY ANALYSES4.1. Approaches of biodiversity4.2. Numerical methods and database based analyses4.3. Spatial biodiversity4.4. True and apparent biodiversity- biodiversity signals and causes of distortion4.5. Methods employed in removing biases in biodiversity signals5. COUPLED NATURE OF CLIMATE-SEA LEVEL AND THE INFLUENCE ON BIODIVERSITY5.1. Paleobiodiversity dynamics in the light of eustatic sea level cycles5.2. Climatic and oceanographic changes due to sea level fluctuations and biodiversity5.3. Scales of environmental changes and influences on biodiversity and habitat6. IMPACTS OF SEA LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS ON BIOTIC TURNOVER6.1. Long-term changes and biodiversity dynamics 6.2. Short-term changes and perturbations and resultant biodiversity dynamics 7. CONCLUSIONS8. REFERENCES