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Land bridges : ancient environments, plant migrations, and New World connections /
And conclusions. Events, processes, and responses ; Bering land bridge ; North Atlantic land bridge ; Antillean land bridge ; Central American land bridge ; Magellan land bridge -- Conceptual issues and future needs.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Boreal land bridges. Bering land bridge ; Beringia. Background ; West Beringia: Siberia and Kamchatka ; Siberia. Geographic setting and climate ; Geology ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; Kamchatka. Geographic setting and climate ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; East Beringia: Alaska, Northwestern North America, and the Aleutian connection. Geographic setting and climate ; Geology ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; Utilization of the Bering land bridge ; Peopling of America (from the West) ; North Atlantic land bridge: Northeastern North America, Greenland, Iceland, Arctic islands, Northwestern Europe ; Geographic setting and climate ; Geology ; Modern vegetation ; Utilization of the North Atlantic land bridge ; Modernization of the flora ; Biodiversity and vegetation density ; Floristic relationships between Eastern Asia and Eastern North America ; Geofloras and the Madrean-Tethyan hypothesis ; Indigenous people ; Peopling of America (from the East)
- Equatorial land bridges. Antillean land bridge. Stepping stones or lost highway ; Geographic setting and climate ; Geology ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; Utilization of the Antillean land bridge ; Central American land bridge. South and North of the Calb ; Geographic setting and climate ; Forging the final link: geology ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; Utilization of the Calb
- Austral land bridge. Magellan land bridge: Cono del Sur and Antarctica. Cono del Sur ; Geographic setting and climate ; Geology ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; Peopling of South America (from the North)
- Antarctica. Geographic setting and climate ; Geology
- Land bridges and island biogeography. Utilization of the Magellan land bridge ; Cono del Sur
- Antarctica
- Case studies. Ferns and allied groups ; Gymnosperms ; Angiosperms ; Monocotyledons ; Dicotyledons
- Summary and conclusions. Events, processes, and responses ; Bering land bridge ; North Atlantic land bridge ; Antillean land bridge ; Central American land bridge ; Magellan land bridge
- Conceptual issues and future needs.