Bones, Clones, and Biomes
Subtitle: The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226649214
Description: As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attributed partly to the striking diversity of Neotropical landscapes and climates and partly to a series of continental connections that permitted intermittent faunal exchanges with Africa, Antarctica, Australia, and North America.