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

Author
Graham, Alan, 1934- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Description
xvi, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    A Natural History of the New World traces the evolution of plant ecosystems, beginning in the Late Cretaceous period and ending in the present, charting their responses to changes in geology and climate.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780226306797 ((alk. paper))
    • 0226306798 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780226306803 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0226306801 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 7802318001129 ((e-book))
    LCCN
    2010001292
    OCLC
    500242946
    Other standard number
    • 3336338
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