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Author Graham, Alan, 1934-

Title A natural history of the New World [electronic resource] : the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas / Alan Graham.

Imprint Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Description xvi, 387 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Getting started -- Location, location, location -- Floods, temperature, evolution, and it's about time -- How do they do that? -- Early on : the first modern ecosystems, 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Paleobotany -- America -- Tertiary.
Paleobotany -- America -- Cretaceous.
Paleobotany -- America -- Cenozoic.
Plant ecology -- America.
Plants -- Evolution -- America.
Plants, Fossil -- America.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226306797 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780226306803 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226306798 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0226306801 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226306827 (e-book)

 
    
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