Evolutionary trends among mammals over the past 66 Myr have been profoundly influenced
by changing climates, in tum the result of tectonic events. The global tropical forest type of …

The history of the southern central Andes, including the world's second largest plateau and
adjacent intermontane basins and ranges of the Eastern Cordillera and the northern Sierras …

The middle Miocene represents a major change in state in Cenozoic climatic evolution,
following the climax of Neogene warmth in the late early Miocene at∼ 16 Ma. The early …

Mammals are the dominant large animals of today, occurring in virtually every environment.
This book is an account of the remarkable 320 million year long fossil record that documents …

Southern South America (SSA) has today a high diversity of climates, environments, biomes,
and biotas, as a result of the complex interaction through time of plants and animals with the …

When the isthmian land bridge triggered the Great American Interchange, a large majority of
land-mammal families crossed reciprocally between North and South America at about 2.5 …

La escala de tiempo local sudamericana del Cenozoico continental está basada en la
secuencia estratigráfica portadora de abundantes mamíferos que aflora en la parte austral …

Though biogeography may be simply defined--the study of the geographic distributions of
organisms--the subject itself is extraordinarily complex, involving a range of scientific …

Aim To produce a robust, comprehensive global biome reconstruction for the Middle
Pliocene (c. 3.6–2.6 Ma), which is based on an internally consistent palaeobotanical data …

The up to∼ 4 km high southern Patagonian Andes form a pronounced topographic barrier to
atmospheric circulation in the southern hemisphere westerlies, and cause one of the most …