A natural history of the New World, the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas, Alan Graham
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A natural history of the New World, the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas, Alan Graham
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Main title
A natural history of the New World
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Alan Graham
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the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas
Summary
A Natural History of the New World traces the evolution of plant ecosystems, beginning in the Late Cretaceous period and ending in the present, charting their responses to changes in geology and climate
Table of 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
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