Evolution & environment in tropical America / edited by Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Ann F. Budd, and Anthony G. Coates.

Other author Jackson, Jeremy B. C., 1942-
Other author Budd, Ann F.
Other author Coates, Anthony G. (Anthony George)
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Descriptionix, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Paleoecology--Latin America.
Paleoecology--Tropics.
Paleoecology--Quaternary.

Variant title Evolution and environment in tropical America
Contents Evolution and environment: introduction and overview / Jeremy B.C. Jackson and Ann F. Budd -- Geologic evolution of the Central American Isthmus / Anthony G. Coates and Jorge A. Obando -- Graphic correlation of marine deposits from the Central American Isthmus: implications for late Neogene paleoceanography / Harry J. Dowsett and Mathew A. Cotton -- Biotic and oceanographic response to the Pliocene closing of the Central American Isthmus / Thomas M. Cronin and Harry J. Dowsett -- Oxygen isotopic record of seasonality in Neogene bivalves from the Central American Isthmus / Jane L. Teranes, Dana H. Geary, and Brian E. Bemis -- Environmental changes in Caribbean shallow waters relative to the closing Tropical American Seaway / Laurel S. Collins.
Contents Plio-Pleistocene turnover and extinctions in the Caribbean reef-coral fauna / Ann F. Budd, Kenneth G. Johnson, and Thomas A. Stemann -- Speciation, extinction, and the decline of arborescent growth in Neogene and Quaternary Cheilostome Bryozoa of Tropical America / Alan H. Cheetham and Jeremy B.C. Jackson -- Paciphilia revisited: Transisthmian evolution of the Strombina group (Gastropoda: Columbellidae) / Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Peter Fung, and Helena Fortunato -- Diversity of Pliocene-recent mollusks in the western Atlantic: extinction, origination, and environmental change / Warren D. Allmon, Gary Rosenberg, Roger W. Portell, and Kevin Schindler -- Molecular comparisons of Transisthmian species pairs: rates and patterns of evolution / Timothy Collins.
Contents Late Cenozoic evolution of the Neotropical mammal fauna / S. David Webb and Alceu Rancy / Quaternary environmental history and forest diversity in the Neotropics / Paul A. Colinvaux.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96021641
ISBN0226389421 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226389448 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks QE720 .E93 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold