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Bones, clones, and biomes : the history and geography of recent neotropical mammals /
As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attributed partly to the striking diversity of Neot...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction to the History and Geography of Neotropical Mammals
- Part 1. The Geological Setting
- 2. Punctuated Isolation: The Making and Mixing of South America's Mammals
- 3. Origins, Radiations, and Distribution of South American Mammals: From Greenhouse to Icehouse Worlds
- 4. Cenozoic Andean Faunas: Shedding New Light on South American Mammal Evolution, Biogeography, Environments, and Tectonics
- 5. On the Evolution of Large Size in Mammalian Herbivores of Cenozoic Faunas of Southern South America
- 6. Evolution of the South American Carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora): A Paleontological Perspective
- 7. A Molecular View on the Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Neotropical Carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora)
- Part 2. Regional Patterns
- 8. Hierarchical Organization of Neotropical Mammal Diversity and Its Historical Basis
- 9. West Indian Mammals: The Old, the New, and the Recently Extinct
- 10. Biogeography of Central American Mammals: Patterns and Processes
- 12. Speciation in Amazonia: Patterns and Predictions of a Network of Hypotheses
- 13. Historical Fragmentation Shaping Vertebrate Diversification in the Atlantic Forest Biodiversity Hotspot
- 14. Mammals of the Cerrado and Caatinga: Distribution Patterns of the Tropical Open Biomes of Central South America
- 15. The Role of the Andes in the Diversification and Biogeography of Neotropical Mammals
- 16. Mammalian Biogeography of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.