The Great American Biotic Interchange : A South American Perspective /
Autores principales: | , , , , |
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Formato: | eBook |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2015. |
Colección: | SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The history of the Great American Biotic Interchange concept
- Continents involved in the GABI
- Landbridges between previously isolated continents
- Chronology, Stratigraphy and Paleoclimatology of South America since Late Miocene to the Recent
- Objectives and hypothesis
- Methods
- Stratigraphic conceptual framework
- Taxonomic diversity: native, immigrant, and in situ differentiated taxa
- Paleoecology: body mass and diet estimations
- Analysis of Immigrant Mammal Fauna through the Diffferent Ages
- Huayquerian Age
- Montehermosan Age
- Chapadmalalan Age
- Marplatan Age
- Ensenadan Age
- Bonaerian Ag
- Lujanian Age
- Platan Age
- Discussion
- The GABI chronology and dynamics
- Integration of South American mammalian faunas: native and immigrant taxa coexisting
- Quaternary mammalian extinctions in South American Composition of recent mammalian fauna of South America.