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BL
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711397
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b533586
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| Main Entry
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Graham, Alan,1934-
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| Title & Author
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A natural history of the New World : : the ecology and evolution of plants in the Americas /\ Alan Graham
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2011
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xvi, 387 p. :: ill., maps ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0226306798 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0226306801 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780226306797 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9780226306803 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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A Natural History of the New World traces the evolution of plant ecosystems, beginning in the Late Cretaceous period and ending in the present, charting their responses to changes in geology and climate
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A Natural History of the New World traces the evolution of plant ecosystems, beginning in the Late Cretaceous period and ending in the present, charting their responses to changes in geology and climate
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Paleobotany-- America-- Cenozoic
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Paleobotany-- America-- Cretaceous
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Paleobotany-- America-- Tertiary
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Plant ecology-- America
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Plants-- Evolution-- America
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Plants, Fossil-- America
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| Dewey Classification
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561.097
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| LC Classification
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QE926.G73 2011
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QE926.G73 2011
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