A natural history of the New World [electronic resource] : the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas / Alan Graham.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graham, Alan, 1934-
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Paleobotany > Tertiary.
Paleobotany > Cretaceous.
Paleobotany > Cenozoic.
Paleobotany > America.
Plant ecology > America.
Plants > Evolution > America.
Plants, Fossil > America.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2010 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
A Natural History of the New World: The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Getting started
  • Location, location, location
  • Floods, temperature, evolution, and it's about time
  • How do they do that?
  • Early on : the first modern ecosystems, 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.