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

The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the most extraordinary vegetation on the planet. But until now it has lacked a complete natural history. Alan Graham remedies that w...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Graham, Alan, 1934-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Sujets:
From 2 to 140 million years ago
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.
SCIENCE > Paleontology.
Cenozoic Geologic Period
Cretaceous Geologic Period
Paleobotany
Plant ecology
Plants > Evolution
Plants, Fossil
Tertiary Geologic Period
Palökologie
Evolution
Paläobotanik
Pflanzen
America
Amerika
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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