Neotropical mammal diversity and the great American biotic interchange: Spatial and temporal variation in South America's fossil record

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Carrillo, Juan D ^a,c   Forasiepi, Analía ^b   Jaramillo, Carlos ^c   Sánchez Villagra, Marcelo R ^a  

^a PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Great american biotic interchange; Mammalia; Neotropics; South America

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREAT AMERICAN BIOTIC INTERCHANGE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION MIGRATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME PERCEPTION; CHRONOLOGY; FOSSIL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; REVIEW; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84917679727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00451     Document Type: Article

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