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A natural history of the New World : the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas / Alan Graham.

By: Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.Description: xvi, 387 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226306803 (pbk.) :
  • 0226306801 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QE926 .G73 2011
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.

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 : 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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