Bones, clones, and biomes
Subtitle: the history and geography of recent neotropical mammals
By: edited by Bruce D. Patterson and Leonora P. Costa
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780226649191
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Biogeography; Mammals; History; Paleobiogeography; Geographical distribution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the history and geography of neotropical mammals / Bruce D. Patterson and Leonora P. Costa; title: The geological setting; title: Punctuated isolation: the making and mixing of South America's mammals / Darin A. Croft; title: Origins, radiations, and distribution of South American mammals: from greenhouse to icehouse worlds / Francisco J. Goin, Javier N. Gelfo, Laura Chornogubsky, Michael O. Woodburne, and Thomas Martin; title: Cenozoic Andean faunas: shedding new light on South American mammal evolution, biogeography, environments, and tectonics / John J. Flynn, Reynaldo Charrier, Darin A. Croft, and Andre R. Wyss; title: On the evolution of large size in mammalian herbivores of cenozoic faunas of southern South America / Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Guillermo H. Cassini, Néstor Toledo, and M. Susana Bargo; title: Evolution of the South American carnivores (mammalia, carnivora): a paleontological perspective / Francisco J. Prevosti and Leopoldo H. Soibelzon; title: A molecular view on the evolutionary history and biogeography of neotropical carnivores (mammalia, carnivora) / Eduardo Eizirik; title: Regional patterns; title: Hierarchical organization of neotropical mammal diversity and its historical basis / Sergio Solari, Paúl M. Velazco, and Bruce D. Patterson; title: West Indian mammals: the old, the new, and the recently extinct / Liliana M. Dávalos and Samuel T. Turvey; title: Biogeography of Central American mammals: patterns and processes / Ana Laura Almendra and Duke S. Rogers; title: Biogeography of mammals from the Guianas of South America / Burton K. Lim; title: Speciation in Amazonia: patterns and predictions of a network of hypotheses / Cibele R. Bonvicino and Marcelo Weksler; title: Historical fragmentation shaping vertebrate diversification in the Atlantic forest biodiversity hotspot / Leonora P. Costa and Yuri L. R. Leite; title: Mammals of the cerrado and caatinga: distribution patterns of the tropical open biomes of central South America / Ana Paula Carmignotto, Mario de Vivo, and Alfredo Langguth; title: The role of the Andes in the diversification and biogeography of neotropical mammals / Bruce D. Patterson, Sergio Solari, and Paúl M. Velazco; title: Mammalian biogeography of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego / Enrique P. Lessa, Guillermo D'Elía, and Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas.