Land bridges : ancient environments, plant migrations, and New World connections / Alan Graham

Englisch

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2018]

© 2018

xxiiii, 310 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten ; cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-226-54432-8 electronic : e-book

978-0-226-54429-8 paper

978-0-226-54415-1 cloth

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-226-54432-8 (Fernzugriff) : (e-book)

9780226544298

10.7208/chicago/9780226544328.001.0001

*Amerika / Pflanzen / Migration / Verbreitung / Landbrücke / Pflanzengeografie / Paläobotanik

*Beringland / Antillen / Känozoikum / Mesozoikum / Fossile Pflanzen / Paläobiogeografie

*Landbrücke / Ausbreitung / Areal / Paläobotanik / Paläogeografie / Verbreitung

*Landbrücke / Atlantischer Ozean Nord

*Natural bridges -- Western Hemisphere ; Landforms -- Western Hemisphere ; Biogeography -- Western Hemisphere ; Plant diversity -- Western Hemisphere ; Natural bridges -- Western Hemisphere ; Landforms -- Western Hemisphere ; Biogeography -- Western Hemisphere ; Plant diversity -- Western Hemisphere

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: GB401.5

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 551.41

Introduction -- Boreal land bridges. Bering land bridge ; Beringia. Background ; West Beringia: Siberia and Kamchatka ; Siberia. Geographic setting and climate ; Geology ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; Kamchatka. Geographic setting and climate ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; East Beringia: Alaska, Northwestern North America, and the Aleutian connection. Geographic setting and climate ; Geology ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; Utilization of the Bering land bridge ; Peopling of America (from the West) ; North Atlantic land bridge: Northeastern North America, Greenland, Iceland, Arctic islands, Northwestern Europe ; Geographic setting and climate ; Geology ; Modern vegetation ; Utilization of the North Atlantic land bridge ; Modernization of the flora ; Biodiversity and vegetation density ; Floristic relationships between Eastern Asia and Eastern North America ; Geofloras and the Madrean-Tethyan hypothesis ; Indigenous people ; Peopling of America (from the East) -- Equatorial land bridges. Antillean land bridge. Stepping stones or lost highway ; Geographic setting and climate ; Geology ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; Utilization of the Antillean land bridge ; Central American land bridge. South and North of the Calb ; Geographic setting and climate ; Forging the final link: geology ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; Utilization of the Calb -- Austral land bridge. Magellan land bridge: Cono del Sur and Antarctica. Cono del Sur ; Geographic setting and climate ; Geology ; Modern vegetation ; Indigenous people ; Peopling of South America (from the North) -- Antarctica. Geographic setting and climate ; Geology -- Land bridges and island biogeography. Utilization of the Magellan land bridge ; Cono del Sur -- Antarctica -- Case studies. Ferns and allied groups ; Gymnosperms ; Angiosperms ; Monocotyledons ; Dicotyledons -- Summary and conclusions. Events, processes, and responses ; Bering land bridge ; North Atlantic land bridge ; Antillean land bridge ; Central American land bridge ; Magellan land bridge -- Conceptual issues and future needs

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