Evolution & environment in tropical America
By: edited by Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Ann F. Budd, and Anthony G. Coates.
Contributors: Jackson, Jeremy B. C., 1942-; Budd, Ann F.; Coates, Anthony G.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: Paleoecology -- Latin America.; Paleoecology -- Tropics.; Paleoecology -- Quaternary.
Other titles: Evolution and environment in tropical America
Description: How were the tropical Americas formed? This ambitious volume draws on extensive, multidisciplinary research to develop new views of the geological formation of the isthmus linking North and South America and of the major environmental changes that reshaped the Neotropics to create its present-day-marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.