A paradigm to be discarded: Geological and paleoecological data falsify the HAFFER & PRANCE refuge hypothesis of Amazonian speciation

Amazoniana

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 609-646

  Colinvaux, Paul A ^a   Irion, Georg ^b   Räsänen, Matti ^c   Bush, Mark B ^d   Nunes De Mello, José Alberto S ^e  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon; Aridity; Ice age; Milankovitch; Neotropics; Pantanal; Pollen; Refugia; Sand dune; Savannah

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000876018     PISSN: 00656755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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