| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 387 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 with A Natural History of the New World . With plants as his scientific muse, Graham traces the evolution of ecosystems, beginning in the Late Cretaceous period (about 100 million years ago) and ending in the present, charting their responses to changes in geology and climate. €€€ & nbsp |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Paleobotany -- America -- Tertiary
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Paleobotany -- America -- Cretaceous
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Paleobotany -- America -- Cenozoic
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Plant ecology -- America
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Plants -- Evolution -- America
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Plants, Fossil -- America
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SCIENCE -- Paleontology.
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Cenozoic Geologic Period
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Cretaceous Geologic Period
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Paleobotany
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Plant ecology
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Plants -- Evolution
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Plants, Fossil
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Tertiary Geologic Period
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Palökologie
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Evolution
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Paläobotanik
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Pflanzen
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America
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Amerika
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226306827 |
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0226306828 |
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