A natural history of the New World
Subtitle: the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas
By: Alan Graham.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780226306797; 9780226306803
Subjects: Paleobotany -- America -- Tertiary; Paleobotany -- America -- Cretaceous; Paleobotany -- America -- Cenozoic; Plant ecology -- America; Plants -- Evolution -- America; Plants, Fossil -- America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Getting started; title: Location, location, location; title: Floods, temperature, evolution, and it's about time; title: How do they do that?; title: Early on : the first modern ecosystems, middle Cretaceous through the early Eocene; title: Transition : middle Eocene through the early Miocene; title: Modernizing : middle Miocene through the Pliocene; title: Latest touch : the great ice ages; title: The bigger picture : implications of past environmental changes in the New World; title: Pole to pole : a walk over the landscape, a walk through time.