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Author:
Graham, Alan, 1934-
Title:
A natural history of the New World : the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas / Alan Graham.
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
xvi, 387 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Paleobotany--America--Tertiary.
Paleobotany--America--Cretaceous.
Paleobotany--America--Cenozoic.
Plant ecology--America.
Plants--Evolution--America.
Plants, Fossil--America.
Notes:
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 : 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.
ISBN:
0226306801 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226306803 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226306798 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780226306797 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)500242946
LCCN:
2010001292
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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