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A natural history of the New World : the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas / Alan Graham.
LIBRA QE926 .G73 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graham, Alan, 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleobotany--America--Tertiary.
- Paleobotany.
- Paleobotany--America--Cretaceous.
- Paleobotany--America--Cenozoic.
- Plant ecology--America.
- Plant ecology.
- Plants--Evolution--America.
- Plants.
- Plants, Fossil--America.
- Plants, Fossil.
- Plants--Evolution.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226306797
- 9780226306803
- 0226306798
- 0226306801
- OCLC:
- 500242946
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