The Great American Biotic Interchange A South American Perspective /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Cione, Alberto Luis (Συγγραφέας), Gasparini, Germán Mariano (Συγγραφέας), Soibelzon, Esteban (Συγγραφέας), Soibelzon, Leopoldo Héctor (Συγγραφέας), Tonni, Eduardo Pedro (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences,
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Historical geology.; Paleontology.; Geobiology.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Historical Geology.

South American ecosystems suffered one of the greatest biogeographical events, after the establishment of the Panamian land bridge, called the “Great American Biotic Interchange” (GABI). This refers to the exchange, in several phases, of land mammals between the Americas; this event started during t...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.