Climatic forcing of evolution in Amazonia during the Cenozoic: On the refuge theory of biotic differentiation

Amazoniana

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 579-607

  Haffer, Jürgen ^a   Prance, Ghillean T ^b  

^a National Tropical Botanic Garden ^*  (Germany)

^b National Tropical Botanic Garden   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Geographic speciation; Milankovitch cycles; Paleoecology; Refugia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001348369     PISSN: 00656755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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