Amazon expeditions : my quest for the ice-age equator /

"In this memoir of a life in science, ecologist Paul Colinvaux takes his readers from the Alaskan tundra to steamy Amazon jungles, from the Galapagos Islands (before tourists had arrived) to the high Andes and the Darien Gap in Panama. He recounts an adventurous tale of exploration in the days...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Colinvaux, Paul, 1930-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
Temas:
Colinvaux, Paul, > 1930- > Travel > Amazon River Region.
Colinvaux, Paul, > 1930-
From 10 thousand to 2 million years ago
Natural history > Amazon River Region.
Climatic changes > Amazon River Region.
Geology, Stratigraphic > Pleistocene.
Stratigraphie > Pléistocène.
Climatic changes.
Geology, Stratigraphic.
Natural history.
Pleistocene Geologic Epoch.
Travel.
Expedition
Klimaänderung
Amazon River Region.
Amazonas-Gebiet
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Trial in Alaska
  • The reason why
  • The Galapagos that Darwin knew
  • Galapagos climate history: the eastern Pacific and the ice-age Amazon
  • Pleistocene refuge and the arid Amazon hypothesis
  • The republic of the equator
  • Refuge theory expands in Brazil
  • the paradigm and the prophet
  • Amazon's bitter lakes
  • On the trail of Francisco de Orellana
  • Ice-age forest found
  • Pollen, Anacondas, and the cool, damp breeze of doubt
  • The paradigm strikes back
  • The adventure of the Darien Gap
  • The adventure of the floating forest
  • The adventure of the customs shed
  • The adventure of the inselberg that leaked
  • Ice Ages from an Amazon inselberg
  • Two thousand fathoms thy pollen lies
  • Maicuru, the last adventure
  • Paradigm coup de grace.

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