Quaternary glaciation and the Great American Biotic Interchange

Geology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 375-378

  Bacon, Christine D ^a,b   Molnar, Peter ^c   Antonelli, Alexandre ^a,d   Crawford, Andrew J ^e,f   Montes, Camilo ^e   Vallejo Pareja, Maria Camila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD INDUSTRIAL DE SANTANDER   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d GOTHENBURG BOTANICAL GARDEN   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^f SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MAMMALS;

LAURENTIDE ICE SHEETS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE GLACIATIONS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GLACIATION; GLACIOLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; QUATERNARY; SAVANNA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84966359142     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G37624.1     Document Type: Article

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