A natural history of the New World [electronic resource] : the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas /
by Graham, Alan; ProQuest (Firm).
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BookPublisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010Description: xvi, 387 p. : ill., maps.ISBN: ; ; ; ; .Subject(s): Paleobotany -- America -- Tertiary | Paleobotany -- America -- Cretaceous | Paleobotany -- America -- Cenozoic | Plant ecology -- America | Plants -- Evolution -- America | Plants, Fossil -- America | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Getting started -- Location, location, location -- Floods, temperature, evolution, and it's about time -- How do they do that? -- Early on : the first modern ecosystems, 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Getting started -- Location, location, location -- Floods, temperature, evolution, and it's about time -- How do they do that? -- Early on : the first modern ecosystems, 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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