Climate change in the circum-caribbean (late pleistocene to present) and implications for regional biogeography

Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 35-54

  Curtis, Jason H ^a   Brenner, Mark ^a   Hodell, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420039481     Document Type: Chapter

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