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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Graham |
ISBN: | 9780226306797 9780226306803 0226306798 0226306801 |
OCLC Number: | 701609848 |
Description: | xvi, 387 pages |
Contents: | Getting started -- Location, location, location -- Floods, temperature, evolution, and it's about time -- How do they do that? -- Early on : middle Cretaceous through the early Eocene -- Transition : middle Eocene through the early Miocene -- Modernizing : middle Miocene through the Pliocene -- Latest touch : the great ice ages -- The bigger picture : implications of past environmental changes in the New World -- Pole to pole : a walk over the landscape, a walk through time. |
Responsibility: | Alan Graham. |
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Abstract:
The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, it features some of the most extraordinary vegetation on the planet. With plants as his scientific muse, the author traces the evolution of ecosystems, beginning from the Late Cretaceous period onwards.
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- Paleobotany -- America -- Tertiary.
- Paleobotany -- America -- Cretaceous.
- Paleobotany -- America -- Cenozoic.
- Plant ecology -- America.
- Plants -- Evolution -- America.
- Plants, Fossil -- America.
- Paléobotanique -- Amérique -- Tertiaire.
- Paléobotanique -- Amérique -- Crétacé.
- Paléobotanique -- Amérique -- Cénozoïque.
- Écologie végétale -- Amérique.
- Plantes -- Évolution -- Amérique.
- Plantes fossiles -- Amérique.
- Cenozoic Geologic Period.
- Cretaceous Geologic Period.
- Paleobotany.
- Plant ecology.
- Plants -- Evolution.
- Plants, Fossil.
- Tertiary Geologic Period.
- America.
- Paléobotanique -- Amérique.
- Paléobotanique.
- Écologie végétale.
- Amérique du nord.
- Amérique du sud.
- Océanie.